Let’s enable our imagination. You, as a Project Manager, receive a request for a new project. What are the very first steps you are going to undertake? I bet this is gathering the initial requirements, drafting the MVP description and creating a Project Charter. I have just described the brief steps of the Project initiation. And this is common to all of the projects, isn’t it.
Next, we need to come up with the general things like scope, timeline, budget and so on. And here the slight differences might enter the game.
Obviously, the delivery approach differs a lot. But what about the closeout? Once deployed, usually we do almost the same things for every project. When all the gaps are closed, we are transferring it to maintenance.