Have a plan

When you first begin to develop the construction of a computer program it is necessary to have a plan. That plan will allow you to work in a series of steps to complete the whole project on time. This will help you to avoid any missed deadlines and achieve the milestones you need.

There are several phases of the SDLC. The phases are necessary to develop an implemention of the process as a team of developers works to obtain the overall goal of a finished product.

Requirements

In this phase usually stakeholders and managers are working together to find out who is going to use the system, how is will be used, what the systems results will look like (output), etc.

Design

In this phase the requirements phase is analyzed to produce a software. Usually a look of drawing is accomplished during this time to get an idea of what the architecture of the system will look like. The Unified Modeling Diagram (UML) is also created during this cycle.

Implementation

This is the phase where the developers can now begin to construct a program from the previous phases. Also this is known as one of the longest parts of the whole process since programming requires a perfection of syntax errors and logic. If anything goes wrong during this cycle, the previous phases are usually reviewed and sometimes modified.

Testing

Here is where the team can finally begin to test the software they created. To make sure everything is in order it is usually necessary to evaluate the Requirements phase to check that everything is on target