Critical evaluation of waterfall project management methodology: A case study of digital management conference project

The aim of this research is to demonstrate understanding of waterfall methodology project management and critically evaluate it in a digital management conference project. There are five steps to waterfall methodology which include requirement, design, execution, verification and deployment. The project mandate from the digital delivery magazine was used to identify the requirement for a Digital Management conference, after which logical and physical design was completed before the project was executed and verified. The deployment phase will take place on October 18, 2022, the opening day of the conference. Through a detailed definition of the project quality at the start of the project, the Waterfall approach assisted in achieving the goal of enhancing the prominence of digital delivery magazine through the Digital Management Conference project. However, waterfall methodology still has some gaps such as unforeseen errors during the course of drafting the requirements which could change the methodology's dynamic whereas software-based methodologies, such as agile, have all the details embedded in the software. The author recommends that future work include an Agile approach-based methodology. This would enable for comparison and investigation of the consequences of an agile approach.