Software Extension to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Fifth Edition Quotes

“scope of the product continues to expand during successive development cycles until the customer requests are fully satisfied, or until time and resources are exhausted.”
― Project Management Institute, Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide

“See Section 5.6.1.4 of the PMBOK® Guide. For adaptive life cycle software projects, work performance data includes velocity, which is used to help establish a realistic scope of work for subsequent iterations.”
― Project Management Institute, Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide

“A representative customer, customer's representative, and/or knowledgeable user is involved on a continuing basis; involvement includes observation of periodic demonstrations of working, deliverable software at the ends of iterative development cycles that produce increments of working deliverable software (i.e., on a daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis). In addition, a representative customer, customer's representative, or knowledgeable user provides guidance for further product development based on demonstrations of working deliverable software and the constraints on project scope (schedule, budget, and resources).”
― Project Management Institute, Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide

“As stated in Section 1.10 of this Software Extension, “agile” is not a project life cycle; it is a term used to characterize certain attributes that adaptive life cycles share to varying degrees.”
― Project Management Institute, Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide

“According to Section 2.4.2.3 of the PMBOK® Guide, iterative and incremental life cycles are those in which the project scope is generally determined early in the project life cycle, but time and cost estimates are routinely modified as the project team's understanding of the product increases.”
― Project Management Institute, Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide

“Melvin Conway, in a statement that became known as Conway's Law, made the following observation: “Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.” [17]”
― Project Management Institute, Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide