¶ … operations, why now at this stage of the course? Why does the SDLC place operations last at the end of the 'waterfall' model of software design? Why, only now, is there an emphasis on making a potential software system operational at the end of a course in software development -- shouldn't this crucial step come first? Isn't operations 'what it's all about,' the reason that software developers are hired by organizations in the first place? But any potential development system must always be able to walk before it can crawl -- and it must be certain that it is walking in the right direction? In other words, one must mind the steps of the software development Systems Development Life Cycle, to ensure that the software development takes place in a useful as well as technologically feasible fashion for the organization in question.

SDLC is the process of developing information systems through investigation, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance. Notice that there are three steps before implementation of the actual system occurs. If one were to focus on the...

This is also why investigation as to how a system will be used, what management desires a software system to accomplish, and who will be the systems most likely user is so critical.
Always, investigation is a very crucial aspect of the software development cycle. Any glitch in the design phase could be very expensive when solving the later stage of the software development. Much care must be taken during this phase as the underpinnings of the logical system of the product are developed in this phase, long before actual operations. (Start vb dotnet.com "SDLC," 2004) After the first stage of investigation, one must also engage in analysis as to how best meet these functions through a budget, and design a system that meets these always by trouble-shooting all potential problems along the way, regarding…