System Development Life Cycle

These are the sequence of events considered by the system analyst, or designer to built the new system or to replace the old system. The development of an information system throughout the system development life cycle involves continual and clean communication among the user and system personal and the people responsible for designing and implementing the system.

1. User :

The user is the person or persons, who will use the system or software once it has been installed.

Eg: Users include the operators, who run the computers and managers who require information from the system.

2. System Personal :

The system personal include system Analysts, System Designers and Programmers.

3. System Analyst :

A system analyst is the person, who works with users to determine their information needs or a System Analyst is the person who is having central control over the system.

4. System Designer :

A system designer is the specialist, who designs a system or software to fulfil the users information needs.

5. Programmer :

A programmer is the person, who codes the instructions that solve a problem in a programming language, so that, they can be used by the computer. In developing the system or software, to make the communication process easier and more efficient. A Project Management Team is oftenly established.

6. Project Management Team :

The Project Management Team usually consists of a Project Manager and depending on the size of the project, various number of users, system personnel, programms and other specialists.