The document presents an overview of the incremental delivery model given by Pankaj Tharau. It discusses that incremental delivery involves breaking a software project into increments and delivering partial functionality to customers in iterations. The highest priority requirements are implemented first. Customers can provide feedback on early increments to refine requirements for later increments. The model has advantages like early value for customers and ability to adapt to changes easily. However, it also has disadvantages like difficulty replacing existing systems and identifying common facilities across increments. The incremental model is suitable when quick delivery is important or new technology is involved.

1. PRESENTATION
ON
INCREMENTAL DELIVERY MODEL
BY
PANKAJ THARU

2. Introduction
Incremental delivery is an
approach to software development
where some of the developed
increments are delivered to the
customer and deployed for use in
their working environment. In an
incremental delivery process,
customers define which of the
services are most important and
which are least important to them.
A number of delivery increments
are then defined, with each
increment providing a subset of
the system functionality. The
allocation of services to increments
depends on the service priority,
with the highest priority services
implemented and delivered first.

3. Once an increment is completed and delivered, it is
installed in the customer’s normal working
environment. They can experiment with the system,
and this helps them clarify their requirements for
later system increments. As new increments are
completed, they are integrated with existing
increments so that system functionality improves
with each delivered increment.

4. Characteristics of Incremental Model
 System is broken down into many mini development projects.
 Partial systems are built to produce the final system.
 First tackled highest priority requirements.
 The requirement of a portion is frozen once the incremented
portion is developed.

5. Phases of Incremental Models
 The incremental model is an iterative process that helps identify and correct defects early on in the
development process. It has four main phases:
 Requirements and analysis—This phase involves gathering and analyzing the requirements of the
project, including the scope, objectives, and constraints. This phase also involves defining the
overall project plan and identifying the resources needed to complete the project. Once this
document has been created, it goes through a series of reviews and revisions before proceeding to
the next phase.
 Design—In this phase, the project team develops a detailed plan for implementing the project,
including the design of the system, the selection of appropriate technologies, and the development
of any necessary prototypes or proofs of concept.
 Coding and implementation—This phase involves the actual implementation of the project by
writing the code according to product requirements. Without using unnecessary hard codes or
defaults, the coding standards must be adhered to appropriately to improve and update product
quality. This stage also makes it possible to physically execute the designs.
 Test—In this phase, the various components of the system, as well as additional functionality, are
checked, integrated, and tested as a whole. After every code implementation, the product should be
tested to ensure that it works properly with other pieces of code already written for that project. The
system is then deployed to the production environment, where it can be used by end users.

6. Why it is called incremental delivery.

7. Advantages of incremental delivery model.
 Customers can use the early increments as prototypes and gain experience that
informs their requirements for later system increments. Unlike prototypes, these are
part of the real system, so there is no relearning when the complete system is
available.
 Customers do not have to wait until the entire system is delivered before they can
gain value from it. The first increment satisfies their most critical requirements, so
they can use the software immediately.
 The process maintains the benefits of incremental development in that it should be
relatively easy to incorporate changes into the system.
 As the highest priority services are delivered first and later increments then
integrated, the most important system services receive the most testing. This
means that customers are less likely to encounter software failures in the most
important parts of the system.

8. Disadvantages of incremental delivery
model.
 Iterative delivery is problematic when the new system is intended to replace an existing system.
Users need all of the functionality of the old system and are usually unwilling to experiment with an
incomplete new system. It is often impractical to use the old and the new systems alongside each
other as they are likely to have different databases and user interfaces.
 Most systems require a set of basic facilities that are used by different parts of the system. As
requirements are not defined in detail until an increment is to be implemented, it can be hard to
identify common facilities that are needed by all increments.
 The essence of iterative processes is that the specification is developed in conjunction with the
software. However, this conflicts with the procurement model of many organizations, where the
complete system specification is part of the system development contract. In the incremental
approach, there is no complete system specification until the final increment is specified. This
requires a new form of contract, which large customers such as government agencies may find
difficult to accommodate.

9. Applicability of Incremental delivery
model.
 the objectives of the entire system are clearly stated and recognized, though some details can evolve
at each increment over time.
 there’s a pressing need to get a product to market as soon as possible.
 the consumer expects the product to be readily available as soon as possible.
 there’s a need to get a product to the market early.
 new technology is being deployed.
 the software team is inexperienced or unskilled.
 a project’s development timeline is prolonged.
 there are some high-risk features and goals.
 there are no resources with the necessary skills.

10. reference.
 BCA text book.
 Internet.

11. Any queries?
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12. Thank you for your precious time.