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Describe a project whose life cycle would be a straight line from
start to finish. Describe a project with an inverse -S life cycle.

Matter very urgent.

Thanx in advance

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Mohamed.Benmerikhi
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Re: Answer to Project Life Cycle Questions

Fri 05 Oct 2012 1:33 pm

Hi Hashim,

A project whose lifecycle wuold be straight line is a

deterministic project with irreversible stages. This means that
while you are progressing in the lifecycle model, there is no
going back, no feedback loop. For example, baking a cake
could
be regarded as a project whose lifecycle is a straight line.

As for the other part of the question regarding the inverse S

lifecycle, I believe you mean a lifecycle where the project
progresses quite fast in the initial phase, slows down and then
speeds up towards the end. Some technology innovation
projects with an important R&D part can have an inverse S
lifecycle curve where they slow down in the middle of their
lifecycle due to lack of progress with the results, but once they
start getting the expected results, they can progress quite fast
towards the end.

I hope this helps and wish you the best of luck