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The System Development Life Cycle involves mainly the three steps or the stages and these can be summarized as the follows
1. The Definition Stage – This stage further consists of the following four sub-stages :
a. Proposal Definition
I. Involves mainly the preparation of a request for a proposed application. II. Proposal mainly helps in the up gradation of an existing application. III. The application must not be long winding and complex. IV. The application can be fully justified. V. The application must be brief and also should be very crisp. VI. The proposal must consist of the regards, the organizational needs, the organizational support, the required time span and also the proprietary clause.
b. Feasibility Assessment
I. Helps in finding out the extent of the feasibility. II. Acts as a very important step of the System Development Life Cycle. III. Helps in the determination of whether the proposed solution is feasible in the nature or achievable, depending on the resources, the problems and the constraints of the organization. IV. In this step, one is able to make a group of the selection criteria, a selection procedure and also an effective decision making. V. For having an in-depth analysis of the feasibility, one must keep into notice the following points
A. Technical Feasibility The various questions that can be asked in this step involves : a. Can the organization implement the proposed solution with the help of the technology that is present or that is available? b. Can the solution be implemented with the help of the hardware, the software and the technical resources that are available to the organization? c. Is the technology that is available to the organization obsolete in the nature or not? d. Is the technology that is available to the organization intermediate, state of the art or very HiFi in the nature?
B. Economic Feasibility