What are the three phases common across project life cycles? (Choose three)

The Disciplined Agile (DA) framework describes a full, goal-driven delivery life cycle that is common across various approaches. This life cycle consists of three distinct phases. The Inception phase focuses on envisioning the project, securing funding, and forming the team. The Construction phase is where the team incrementally produces a potentially consumable solution. Finally, the Transition phase ensures the solution is successfully deployed or released to stakeholders and the business is prepared to receive it. These three phases provide a lightweight governance structure for agile and lean projects from initiation to delivery.

A. Inspiration: This is not a formal phase in the Disciplined Agile life cycle; it typically occurs before a project is formally initiated, within portfolio management.

B. Modulation: This term is not used within the Disciplined Agile framework to describe a project life cycle phase.

1. Ambler, S. & Lines, M. (2019). Choose Your WoW!: A Disciplined Agile Delivery Handbook for Optimizing Your Way of Working. Project Management Institute. See Chapter 3, "The Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) Process Framework," particularly Figure 3.1 and the section "The Phases of a DAD Project," pp. 40-41, which explicitly names and details the Inception, Construction, and Transition phases.

2. Project Management Institute. (2021). Introduction to Disciplined Agile. This official PMI courseware for the DASM certification introduces the three phases (Inception, Construction, Transition) as the fundamental structure of the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) life cycle in Module 2: Foundations of Disciplined Agile.