Progressive Elaboration

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Keywords: Agile Planning PMI-ACP

Contents
1 Overview
2 Importance
3 PMI-ACP Exam Outline Reference
4 Body
5 History
6 Current practice
7 See also
8 Sources & Reference
9 External Links

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Overview

Progressive elaboration involves continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available. Progressive elaboration allows a project management team to define work and manage it to a greater level of detail as the project evolves.

Importance

PMI-ACP Exam Outline Reference

Body

History

Current practice

In agile approaches, progressive elaboration is achieved by short iterations or development cycles with a step of refining the backlog at the beginning of (and sometimes during) an iteration. In iterative projects, rolling wave planning is a common technique of progressive elaboration.

Sources & Reference

PMBOK, part 2, ch. 3, p. 565

External Links

Examples of progressive elaboration