A: The answer to this question is "no". If you think you need to phase out your first project, there's a good chance that you have taken on more work than you should. Work on a project scope that can be done in about a maximum of 12 weeks with your team (more on team makeup in a minute). You should aim to develop, test, and go live in production within that timeframe, plus or minus a few weeks.

If you successfully confine yourself to a deliverable scope that fits within this timeframe, you can avoid scope sprawl, and then a traditional development process similar to waterfall is entirely appropriate. That is to say:

If for some reason, you can't confine the scope, avoid this kind of process if you can and instead follow an agile process, such as SCRUM. This is a topic outside the scope of this chapter and book. However, agile processes are entirely appropriate to follow with SharePoint projects. For more information, just google SharePoint Agile Scrum and you will find a great deal of useful information on this topic.