Development – specific phases of the SDLC

Since the advent of Agile methodologies, and the widespread adoption of many of them, the specific shapes of the development-specific phases of an SDLC can vary substantially. Different methodologies make different decisions about what to prioritize or emphasize, and those differences can, in turn, yield significantly different processes and artifacts to accomplish the goals of formal SDLC phases that focus directly on developer needs and activities. Whole books have been written about several of the Agile processes, so a complete discussion of them is well beyond the scope of this book, but all of them address the following activities.