Except for the fact that testing began before release, this is totally accurate.
What do you mean? The customers are the testers, they just don’t know it yet.
What testing?
The one done in live production environment
Isn’t testing when you let the customers use it in production to make sure it works?
Project reality was an absolute failure. Why my parents didn’t pick project abortion instead I’ll never know
Where is the phase where management spends all the dev time getting contracts in place, then gets mad when they can’t keep the same schedule?
When onboarding takes forever and the customer doesn’t want to move up their deadlines.
Code needs to start in parallel with the kick off meetings and run the full length of the program. Otherwise looks accurate!