INTEGRATED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE MODEL

Abstract

Software Development is frequently characterized by disorganization, confusion, unrealized customer expectations, chaos and outright project failure. Most software projects fail due to lack of clearly defined requirements, frequently changing software requirements, inadequate levels of funding, lack of sufficient software testing, lack of customer/user involvement, lack of experienced personnel and mainly due to Lack of basic software development processes to manage the project. A disciplined approach to software development through the use of software development methods could help address most of these problems. Hundreds of such commercial or brand-named software development methods exist, but these are not widely used in practice, and are certainly not used in their entirety. The main intention of this project is to identify the practicality of existing Software Development Life cycle models and identify a Software Development Life cycle which is more practical and more applicable to today’s Software Development industry without sacrificing the accepted standards. The results and the expediency of the model will be broadly discussed in the upcoming chapters of this dissertation.