This document outlines the typical lifecycle of a software project from planning and analysis through deployment, maintenance, and evaluation. It breaks the process down into key phases including planning, analysis, design, build, testing, deployment, and maintenance. The goal is to show how a system is defined, designed, built, tested, installed, supported, and improved over its lifetime from conception through final evaluation by customers.

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2. Plan
How the system
was defined
Analysis
How the analyst
understood it
Design
How the architect
designed it

3. Build
How the developers
built it
Build
How it was
documented
Test
What the testers
received

4. Deployment
How it was
installed
Maintenance
How the users were
supported
Maintenance
How it was fixed

5. How the system was
expected
How it is marketed How the user wants
it

6. How it performed What the customer
was billed
User attitude
toward the system
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