Impact of Incremental Delivery Process on both of Initial Handover and Final Acceptance Certificate in Project Management

Abstract

Incremental delivery is a key component of software Projects, it allows us to deliver the most valuable elements of a system first, which allows our customers to start getting benefit from the system earlier, this can have a significant impact on time, cost, quality and project management. It helps both of the contractors and the owner's representatives to simplify the initial handover processes when an iterative work is repeated when an incrementally delivery occurs. The incremental build model is a method of software development where the product is designed, implemented and tested incrementally (a little more is added each time) until the product is finished. It involves both development and maintenance, the product is defined as finished when it satisfies all of its requirements .this model combines the elements of waterfall model with the iterative philosophy of prototyping. Phased construction method can deal with projects such as housing ,infrastructure and roads when each step, phase and stage can be delivered separately and give profits and benefits to some people ,companies or foundations even when the other steps, phases or stages can be done later (planned or not). Then incremental delivery process is different from phased construction delivery method, which integration process is mandatory and important to reach the project objectives and deliverables. The difference here is in planning phase , when you plan to deliver a certain and a defined objective which can give you something (profit or benefit ) and then with integration process you can continue to accomplish the remain objectives incrementally with the same way to reach finally the project objectives and goals ,then an iterative work will take place every delivery stage and a repeated process for initial handover even a final acceptance certificate can be done with an ease of use saving time, effort, cost and conflicts specially in the documentation domain. Incremental delivery process affect positively both of initial handover delivery and final acceptance certificate of the projects for all included parties and give a new approach to deliver projects deliverables incrementally which can get customer satisfaction and improve the projects quality in both implementation phase and closure phase.