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Benefits: early delivery

publish date: 2026/05/29 08:22:39.466985 UTC

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Incremental development can deliver useful software earlier than a pure waterfall approach.

Which statement best captures this advantage?

Early increments are always discarded and never used.

Only documentation is delivered incrementally, not software.

Customers can start using and gaining value from partial functionality before the entire system is complete.

The system is never deployed until all increments are finished.

Customers can start using and gaining value from partial functionality before the entire system is complete.

Even if not all features are implemented, early increments can support real work and provide business value.

Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 9th edition