Development Lifestyle

The Software Development Lifecycle goes through four specific phases, each of which represents a project development milestone. These phases are: Analysis, Design, Development, and Evaluation. During these phases, each of the following activities takes place at a higher or lower degree: Identification of Requirements, Business Modeling, Analysis and Design, Development, Test, and Deployment.

Analysis

This is the first phase where we interview the client to determine who are the potential application users, and what function they perform in the process that is going to be modeled. As a result, we get a better understanding of what the intended use and requirements of the application are in the business in question.
The analyst will identify how different users will interact with the application and, based on the findings, proposes a preliminary architecture. Next, the analyst estimates the overall project cost and makes recommendations as to which platform should be used to run the application.

At this point, the system is defined well enough to continue into the next phase.

Design

During this phase the main objectives are:

Design the application system component defined during the Inception phase
Select a specific architecture.
Install the hardware and software (developer environment) needed to complete the project.
Produce a detailed and accurate estimate of time and resources.

Development

The key activities during this phase are to program the system, and define a release policy (version alpha, beta, etc) of the software.

Transition

This is the final phase where we test the application to make sure it conforms to the specifications of the Design phase. Also, it is where several functionality and deployment tests are performed.

Any issues associated with the application performance will also be addressed during this phase.

This development lifecycle will ensure the success of your project.