Week 12: Clear

For this week’s blog I will be discussing the System Development Cycle (SDC) and the effect it can have on you as a business person. To begin, the system development cycle consists of five individual stages: (1.)Planning, (2.)Analysis, (3.)Design, (4.)Implementation, (5.)Operation, Support and Security.

In the Planning Stage of the SDC the whole object is to prioritize, organize, and establish what projects you should or should not take. You need to look at the problem from a third perspective and define what if your business needs to undertake it or not. Next is where the analysis phase comes into play. This is where you decide if the cost of taking on the project is going to be worth it through doing a preliminary analysis. If it doesn’t seem feasible or the project requires more inputs than you’ll receive in outputs, you’d abandon the project. However, if it does seem feasible you would move onto the design stage. This is the stage where you figure out how to implement the features and make your final reviews; although it takes a lot of time to do, it is well worth it. Following this is your actual implementation stage. This is where the action takes place. The four major activities in this stage are: Develop programs and documentation, install and test, train, and convert. Now once the ball has started rolling you run into the last stage; operation, support and security. This is where you maintain the project, support your employees through the change and monitor performance. And there you go, an overview of how System Development Cycles work in the business world.