Project Lifecycle

Phases of Project Lifecycle

• Defining and producing a specification

This stage is about defining what the customer needs and to solve the problems with you customer. By doing this firstly you need to interview with your customer, within the interview you need to asks questions about what the customer requirements needs and recorded so you don’t miss any things. Then you need to produce a specification for your customer. You also can produce a business case for your customer which it giving potential costs and benefits for your customer.

The four main activities are:

1. Interview the customer
2. Analyse the customer’s requirements
3. Produce a specification
4. Produce a business case
• Planning and designing

When you know what the customer requirements needs then you got to plan out what to do to reach the standard of what customer want, and you got to design it out to present to your customer.

The five main activities are:

1. Produce an overall design
2. Design an input system
3. Design an output system
4. Design a processing system
5. Produce design documentation

• Collecting information

When you planning for a project you always need to collect information on how the project is going and how to improve it from others who are working on the project. Once the information has collected and you will need to review and summarise that information into your project and present it to your customer.

• Implementing

When you know what the customer requirements needs and you had produced a specification for your customer. You make the plan and the produce your design to your customer. Then you need to build up the implement and present to your customer.
The implementation stage includes:

• Build the project
• Test that the produce meets the need
• Provide documentation and possibly training
• Hand the project over to the customer

• Completing and reviewing

This stage is to the completing and reviewing for your project. By completing your project you need to identifying the actual benefits and how much it going to cost for building and running the project. By reviewing your project, this is when you complete your project and you present to the stakeholders to do a final project review.