Project Lifecycle Product go through a life cycle

Project Lifecycle • Product go through a life cycle just like butterflies • Source http: //www. enchantedlearnin g. com/subjects/butterfly/activ ities/printouts/lifecycle. shtml Fundamentals of Software Development 1 1

The Project Life Cylce • Your deliverable a the end of the quarter will be Release 1 • If you were planning further releases, you would follow a pattern similar to the on the right Fundamentals of Software Development 1 Source: http: //www. comp. glam. ac. uk/Teaching/pro jectmanagement/lifecycles 3 f. htm 2

Stages • There are many templates for stages. For example (from http: //www. dfes. gov. uk/cybrarianproject/background/stages. cfm ) – – Stage 1 – Project Set-up and Scoping Stage 2 – Development of Proof of Concept Stage 3 – Procurement Stage 4 – Start of Main Project • Note, main project starts after careful planning and data gathering – – Stage 5 – Project Development Stage 6 – Customisation and Pilot Stage 7 – ‘Soft’ Launch Stage 8 – Full Launch and Rollout Fundamentals of Software Development 1 3

Conventional Wisdom (On the lighter side) • Phase 1: – Wild enthusiasm • Phase 2: – Dejected disillusionment • Phase 3: – Total confusion • Phase 4: – Search for the guilty • Phase 5: – Punishment of the innocent • Phase 6: – Promotion of non-participants Fundamentals of Software Development 1 4