Friday, February 17, 2012

Product Development Life Cycle

Today, we are going to start looking at the PDLC. This is like a more sophisticated version of the Design Cycle that you might remember from your MYP IT classes. The overall process is very similar, but there are more steps and you are required to look deeper into the requirements of your client. Additionally, since your product in this case will be more technologically advanced than those you did in MYP, you'll be creating Instructions for your client.

Here are the major steps in the PDLC:

Investigation of Existing Systems
Feasibility Study
Requirements Specification
Project Schedule
Project Design
Project Development and Technical Documentation
Client and End-User Evaluation, Integration

All of this is covered in section 3.9 (pg 247-252) in your textbooks. Also, check out our Collaborative Document (you need to be logged into your Gmail account to access).

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