6.1 Developing an Information Technology ...
6.1 Developing an Information Technology Development
Methodology
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As described in Lecture 4, a number of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models have been devised to manage the development process of an IT project in various phases. |
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Such models include the Waterfall Model, the Spiral Model, the Prototyping Model, the Rapid Application Development Model and the Extreme Programming Model. |
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An SDLC model can be considered as a methodology for software development. |
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As discussed in Lecture 3, different organizations have different characteristics represented by the four frames of an organization: the structural frame, the human resources frame, the political frame and the symbolic frame. |
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An organization working on IT project development usually tailors software development methodologies to suit the specifics of its four frames. |
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PMBOK's process groups and their associations with knowledge areas (described in Lecture 5) represent a standard that IT organizations can use to develop and/or customize their own software development methodology. |