C790 Nursing Informatics (WGU) System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Study Guide.

project - is a planned undertaking, with a beginning and end that produces a well-defined result or product. information system development project - a planned undertaking that produces a new information system predictive approach to the SDLC - assumes that the development project can be planned and organized and that the new information system can be developed according to the plan useful for building systems that are well understood and defined. company may want to convert its old networked client/server system to a newer Web-based system that includes a smartphone app. In this type of project, the staff already understands the requirements very well, and no new processes need to be added traditional (70s-90s) adaptive approach to the SDLC - is used when the system's requirements and/or the users' needs aren't well understood. In this situation, the project can't be planned completely. Some system requirements may need to be determined after preliminary development work.