What are the Advantages of Waterfall Model?

What are the Advantages of Waterfall Model:

What are the Advantages of Waterfall Model?

• Simple and easy to use
• Easy to manage – each phase has specific deliverable’ s and a review process
• Phases are processed and completed within scheduled time
• Works well if requirements are very clear

• It is one the easiest model to manage. Because of its nature, each phase has specific deliverable’s and a review process. In each phase we will get to know what to deliver and when to deliver.
• Faster delivery of the project
• Process and results are well documented and documentation plays important role in Waterfall methodology.
• Easily adaptable method for shifting teams.
• This project management methodology is useful to manage dependencies.
• It works well for smaller size projects where requirements are easily understandable.

Disadvantages:

• Handling change request is difficult.
• Feedback from the client is not there.
• There may be chance to no coordination between the teams.
• Team work and coordination is not there
• Continuous improvement process

• This model is not suggestible for Large projects
• If the requirement is not clear at the beginning, we can’t use waterfall methodology because every phase is dependent on previous phase.
• Here next phase will start once previous phase completed.
• Very difficult to move back to makes changes in the previous phases.
• The testing process starts once development is over. Hence, it has high chances of bugs to be found later in development where they are expensive to fix.
• There is no team work in this model.
• Difficult to manage change requests in this model.

I hope now you got some idea about what are the advantages of waterfall Model? 

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