What are the advantages and disadvantages of SDLC?
SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) is not a methodology but approaches describing the different stages involved in system development in the fields of system engineering, information systems, and software engineering. It may consist of hardware, software, or a combination of both.
According to Wikipedia, it may consist of six to ten stages of system development using various SDLC models. Waterfall, spiral, Agile Software Development, rapid prototyping, incremental, and synchronize and stabilize are models used in it.
Unlike PLC (Product Life Cycle), SDLC used to develop a large-scale functional business system with a lot of integrations and intricacies. Many techies use SDLC for traditional Waterfall like methodologies and keep Agile Development methods apart from it. If we stick to that, we can compare the pros and cons of SDLC following ways.
· Evaluate costs and completion targets
· Well defined user input
· Development and design standards
· Tolerates changes in MIS of staffing
Increased development time
Increased development cost
Systems must be defined up front
Hard to estimate costs, project overruns
User input is sometimes limited
Automation of documentation and standards is limited
Does not tolerate changes in requirements
Projects canned early on the result in little or no value
Who will prove excellent at SDLC for your project?
My personal experiences and opinion are Perception System, San Jose in California, USA. I have seen that company has 17+ years of experiences in software development and they have evolved their project development lifecycle as well as software development lifecycle over time.
They use the latest agile, rapid development, other modern approaches as per needs and according to the types of projects. Similarly, they apply traditional waterfall like methodologies for small and well-defined projects. They know perfectly which development methodology or combinations will work for your projects.
If you eager to harvest their expertise and experiences in custom software development and other software development niches such as mobile app development, web development, and so on, come into contact to a leading Software Development Company, the Perception System in the USA.