HEMAM RANJIT KUMAR SINGHFounder & Director| TechSure Global Consultancy LLPGuwahati, Assam, India
A project life cycle is the series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure. With regard to the Stakeholder influences and the Cost of changes in a Project, which is TRUE from the following statements?
A. Predictive Life Cycles are developed with the intent of keeping stakeholder influences higher and the costs of changes lower throughout the Project Life Cycle than in Adaptive Life Cycle.
B. Adaptive Life Cycles, in particular, are developed with the intent of keeping stakeholder influences higher and the costs of changes lower throughout the Project Life Cycle than in Predictive Life Cycle.
C. Both the Life Cycles are developed with the intent of keeping the stakeholder influences high and the costs of changes also high throughout the Project Life Cycle.
D. Adaptive Life Cycles, in particular, are developed with the intent of keeping the costs of changes higher and stakeholder influences also higher throughout the Project Life Cycle than in Predictive Life Cycle.
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HEMAM RANJIT KUMAR SINGHFounder & Director| TechSure Global Consultancy LLPGuwahati, Assam, India
hi All,
This is straight from the PMBOK Guide 5th Edition. Any aspirant want to have a try ?
Thanks and best regards,
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Niranjan PabbathiTechnical Program Manager| Akamai TechnologiesBangalore, Karnataka, India
Adaptive Life Cycles, in particular, are developed with the intent of keeping stakeholder influences higher and the costs of changes lower throughout the Project Life Cycle than in Predictive Life Cycle. Saving Changes...
NARENDER GUDIBANDAProgram Director| Tata Consultancy ServicesFrisco, Tx, United States
Agile methodology involves higher participation levels of stakeholders in each iteration and thus lower costs of changes in the project. So, answer B is correct. Saving Changes...
Hannes KropfProject Manager| ITERGO GmbHHamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Option A) is wrong since the influence of the stakeholder are lower in the predictive life cycle and the cost of changes are higher in the predictive life cycle
Option C) is wrong, because the cost of changes are low in the adaptive life cycle
Option D) is wrong, because the intent is to keep the cost of changes lower in the adaptive life cycle.
Option B) is correct, because Adaptive Life Cycles are developed with the intent of keeping stakeholder influences higher and the costs of changes lower throughout the Project Life Cycle
