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3. Development methods: Waterfall

There are a number of ways to develop a software project.

Waterfall development

This breaks the project down into a series of timed steps. Some of which can overlap. These include

  • define requirements
  • analyse
  • design
  • implement
  • test (verfication)
  • installation
  • maintenance

The systems life cycle is this type of approach

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