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What is the most critical part of the systems development life cycle (SLDC)?
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Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
The systems development life cycle describes the stages involved in a system development project, with the objective of developing or scaling business systems. A system implementation or improvement project is something most technical project managers will handle in which this cycle will need to be followed. A successful answer will show your familiarity with the relevant steps to the process. In addition, the interviewer wants to learn how well you understand these steps.
Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
"In my opinion, all phases of the SLDC are important. For example, defining user requirements is one of the key elements to successful testing and evaluation, to which the analysis and planning phases are critical. In the same vein, if the sample framework is flawed from the design phase, you may only determine the flaws during deployment to a larger group. I'm a big fan of following a well-defined cycle because it helps provides a clear view of the system implementation or improvement project needs, such as the project team, staffing, cost, and timing."
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In my opinion, the input analysis and the planning phase is the most critical:
This is the part where the product backlog (which is the backbone of the project) is compiled, solution concept is presented to the stakeholders and the management especially,
the cost/effort/resources plan introduced - all needed for the stakeholders/management to perform a meaningful go/no go session.
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