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002 Handout 2 SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE Legal Sheets
002 Handout 2 SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE Legal Sheets
(From Using Information Technology – Williams, Sawyer and Hutchinson, 2nd ed. 1997.
Discovering Computers 2009, Shelly, Cashman, Vermaat.)
An information system (IS) consists of hardware, software, be greater than its lifetime costs. It addresses
people, procedures and data that work together to produce funding. A systems analyst often consults the
information. The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is advice of a business analyst, who uses many
a set of activities used to build an information system. Most financial techniques, such as return on
system development cycles have six (6) phases: preliminary investment (ROI) and payback analysis, to
investigation, analysis, design, development, implementation, perform the cost/benefit analysis.
maintenance. Submit a Preliminary Plan/Feasibility Report