Week 1: Essay Assignment - SDLC Process

ABC Bank of West Virginia has hired you as a new business systems analyst. The steering committee wants to take advantage of the new technology available for the banking industry. The new project proposal is to provide a customer user interface to access their accounts and conduct basic banking functions via their smart phone. Since following a traditional systems development life cycle (SDLC) process is new to the company, they have asked you to review the steps required to complete the new software project and determine which SDLC phase each item belongs to each step. Also, they would like you to describe the need for systems analysis and design process as they consider this potential project.

Step 1. Review the following 18 steps for this new software project and make a table that list each step in one column and identify the SDLC phase the step belongs in the second column in a Microsoft Word document.

1. Introduction of New System Proposal
2. Feasibility Analysis
3. Project Approved
4. Prepare Project Charter
5. Scope Statement Completed
6. Analysis/Software Requirements
7. Selection of Development Alternative
8. Design of User Interface
9. Design of Database
10. Coding of the Software Features
11. Testing the features to ensure requirements are met
12. Training
13. Documentation
14. Pilot Software
15. Final Deployment
16. Post Implementation Review
17. Software Security Implemented
18. Continual Improvement with Maintenance

Step 2. In a separate paragraph below the table, please describe the need for systems analysis and design process as they consider this potential project. This should be completed with at least 100 wrds.

Step 3. With two or three sentences in a separate paragraph, please provide a reflection of what you learned this week between the lesson, discussion, and this homework assignment.

Step 4. Include at least two references in A.P.A format.