Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

The first step in the Systems Development Life Cycle is the gathering of requirements. This can be difficult at large organizations like this umbrella. It involves identifying subject matter experts who can clearly state what data they would like extracted from the database and modeled in a way that's easy to read. It's also difficult because it's important to manage expectations. In our case, we are prepared to offer our developer zero dollars. This means that our requirements should be fairly simple. Example...

Observations of wild and naturally occurring species within the umbrella with fewer than 250 total observations.

We also need to make sure that we collaborate carefully. This means polling the group of subject matter experts to see if there are other queries that might be more meaningful. What other queries would people find interesting? Since we are only prepared to pay our developer zero dollars, we should probably limit ourselves to retrieval of data stored by the member projects within our own umbrella. This will make things easier for the developer because it limits the number of records they'll need to manipulate.

Posted on November 18, 2023 01:19 PM by stockslager