Activity 2: System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

1. What is a Software development Life Cycle?

The Software Development Life Cycle is a process that ensures good software is built.  Each phase in the life cycle has its own process and deliverables that feed into the next phase.  There are typically 5 phases starting with the analysis and requirements gathering and ending with the implementation.  Let’s look in greater detail at each phase.

2. Why is Software Development Life Cycle important?

SDLC serves as a guide to the project and provides a flexible and consistent medium to accommodate changes, and perform the project to meet client’s objectives. SDLC phases define key schedule and delivery points which ensure timely and correct delivery to the client within budget and other constraints and project requirements. SDLC co-operates project control and management activities as they must be introduced within each phase of SDLC.

3. Can you provide examples of how SDLC can be used?

It can use to convert a manual system to automatic work which everything is well-managed, plan and data is save everywhere and easily to search.

UNIT 5 : Activity 1 List four Web 2.0 tools that you commonly use

Information system is widely used in our daily life. Can you identify them? Identify the industry where the system is used. Briefly explain why is it considered as an information system?

Information system is widely used in our daily life mostly in marketing industry such as accounting, information systems help record business transactions, produce periodic financial statements, and create reports required by law, such as balance sheets and profit-and-loss statements. It is an information system because it is the collection, organization, storage and communication of information. It is the complementary of networks that people and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create and distribute data. It is important to the operation of contemporary businesses, it offers many employment opportunities.