Nt1330 Unit 4

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Question 4 – Part 1: What is iteration in an information systems project? How do iterations relate to SDLC? Developing an information system can be compared to a large project that is divided into mini-projects to work towards the end goal of having a fully integrated information system that meets the needs of the business user and addresses complex organization problems. The system development life cycle (SDLC) has six core processes: identify the problem and get approval to work it, plan and oversee the project, discover and understand the details, design the system components, develop, test and integrate the components, and complete testing and deployment of the solution (Satzinger, Jackson, & Burd, 2016). An iteration in an information systems project refers to a development cycle, or mini-project, which lasts a fixed length of time, and results in a core component of the system being developed (Satzinger, Jackson, & Burd, 2016). All of the six core processes are part of each iteration cycle and repeated as each component of the system is built …show more content…
These activities include gathering, defining and documenting the requirements for the software, and then analyzing the requirements to deduce the perspective of the desired solution for the project. The next activity is designing the components, modules and interfaces of the software based on the solution analysis carried out. After the designing phase, the software implementation takes place, which includes the coding, testing and integration of the software (Olson, 2014). The end of each iteration states the completion of a certain percentage of the software development. A software is built on a series of iterations until the software is tried and tested and then deployed to the end user (Ambler,