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Project Management & Agile · Intermediate

Rolling Wave Planning

Iterative planning technique in which near-term work is planned in detail while future work is planned at a higher level.

Definition

It is a form of progressive elaboration used in schedule and scope decomposition. Planning packages may exist at the WBS level until enough information is available to define activities.

Example

Months 1-3 are detailed to the activity level; months 4-12 are shown as milestones.

Exam tip

Answer choice for 'insufficient information to plan later phases in detail'.

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