SDLC - The System Development Life Cycle for Beginners

We take a look at a quick introduction of the Planning Phase of the SDLC, to gain a fundamental understanding of the information about to come.  

The first step of the Planning Phase of the SDLC - recognizing the problem.  These are the factors that prompt change within an organization, or within a system. 

When working with a project, we always need to start off with defining what the goal of the project is, especially in the SDLC. 

We look at defining the problem, and how we should be able to do that. 

We look at the part of the SDLC where we have to set the objectives for the project.  We need to know what outcomes are required in order for the project to be deemed successful, or not.  

Because we don't live in a perfect world, it's important to notice that we have to identify the constraints, that may limit the approach we take to solving the issues, or rather the problems the SDLC is set out to improve.  

We look at the feasibility study questions in chronological order.  These questions are required for the Feasibility Study, and may have great impact on the project, and on the System Development Life Cycle.

We look at the feasibility study questions in chronological order.  These questions are required for the Feasibility Study, and may have great impact on the project, and on the System Development Life Cycle.

We look at the feasibility study questions in chronological order.  These questions are required for the Feasibility Study, and may have great impact on the project, and on the System Development Life Cycle.

We look at the feasibility study questions in chronological order.  These questions are required for the Feasibility Study, and may have great impact on the project, and on the System Development Life Cycle.

We look at the feasibility study questions in chronological order.  These questions are required for the Feasibility Study, and may have great impact on the project, and on the System Development Life Cycle.

We summarize the feasibility study questions, and look at what the answers to the questions have to say for the System Development Life Cycle. 

Having conducted the previous steps, the next step in the SDLC is to create a project proposal.  We need to present the information we've gained to the management of the organization, in order to argument for the change we want to implement. 

We look at the importance of establishing control mechanisms when conducting System Development. 

We have a quick look at what we expect to happen in the Analysis Phase of the SDLC.

We look at an overview of the processes that should occur in the Analysis Phase of the SDLC.

Once it has been established that we need to make further investigations, there will be a requirement for a project team.  In this lecture we look at how this process usually gets conducted. 

This lecture looks at defining the information that will be required in order to continue the Analysis Phase of the SDLC. 

When using the System Development Life Cycle, we need to gain a lot of information in the Analysis Phase, and therefore, it is very important that we identify and evaluate the sources of information we have access to. 

We need to identify and describe the types of information we require to analyse the system completely.  Therefore, we have this as a separate section of the Analysis Phase in the System Development Life Cycle. 

We need to identify and describe the problem areas of the current system, so that we more easily can understand what the actual problem is, and what the best route for improving the system is. 

In this lecture, we look at the necessity for using system modelling tools, in order to more easily understand the current system, and to be able to more easily suggest improvements to the current system. 

We understand the importance of analyzing the current system, and the need for understanding the current system in order to make improvement suggestions to the new system we want to develop. 

In this lecture, we learn the importance of defining the criteria for the system performance, and the requirement of creating a design proposal, which will be the basis of the next phase, the Design Phase of the SDLC. 

We take an overview of the tasks that should be completed during the Design Phase of the SDLC. 

The first consideration we need to make when designing a new system, or making improvements to an existing system, is the output the system is created to generate.

In this lecture, we look at the factors that need to be considered when designing the input requirements for the system. 

In this lecture, we look at the processing requirements for the new system. 

In this lecture, we look at evaluating alternative system configurations, selecting a configuration and preparing the implementation of the system. 

IN this lecture, we look at the implementation phase of the SDLC. 

In this lecture, we look at planning and announcing the implementation of the new system in the System Development Life Cycle. 

In this lecture, we look at acquisition of new equipment for the enabling of the new system. 

In this lecture, we look at preparing the physical facilities for the implementation of the system.

In this lecture, we look at educating the users of the new system, and what factors we need to take into consideration when we are going to educate the users. 

In this lecture we have a look at developing an implementation schedule. 

In this lecture, we look at the commissioning of the new system. 

In this lecture, we take an overview of the evaluation phase of the SDLC. 

In this lecture, we look at the steps in the evaluation phase of the SDLC in more detail. 

In this final lecture, we have a final summary of what the phases in the System Development Life Cycle are, and what the main content of those phases are.  This is a quick recap of the course contents.