Project Phases & Project Life Cycle

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Concept phase:
  • briefly the project, develop very high level/summary plan.
  • describes the need for the project and basic underlying concepts.
  • preliminary cost estimate.
  • the work involved is created.
  • the end of the phase, deliver a report and presentation on its finding.

Development phase:
  • Creates a more detailed project plan, a more accurate cost estimate and more thorough project work.
  • Minimizes the time and money.

Implementation phase:
  • delivers the required work and creates a definitive or very accurate cost estimate.
  • bulk of time should be spent here.

Close-out phase:
  • completed work.
  • lessons learned(provide document/report).
  • customer acceptance.

System development life cycle(SDLC)
  • A framework to describe the phases involve in developing and maintaining systems.


Popular models of a SDLC:
  • The waterfall model - well-defined, linear stages of systems development support.
  • The spiral model - developed based on experience with various refinement project of the waterfall model.
  • The incremental model - for progressive development of operational software, with release providing added capabilities.
  • The prototyping model - developing software prototypes to clarify requirements for operational software.

Importance of Project Phases & Management Reviews

  • A project must successfully pass through each project phases.
    • Organization commit more money as a project continues, a management review to evaluate.
    • Management reviews called phase exits/kill points.
    • Important for keeping projects on track and determining if they should be:
      • Continued
      • Redirected
      • Terminated.

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