Principles of Traditional System Development Life Cycle Models
Waterfall
It is a formal approach considered to build a system, systems development dividing into
formal stages taken sequentially. Here sequentially refers to completing all the activities at
one stage, prior to beginning of the following stage. It shows formal and clear division of
labour in between information systems specialists and end users. This model emphasizes
paperwork with detailed formal specifications generating and accumulating several
documents in the system project course.
Once the system gets installed and enters into production, a formal post implementation audit
takes place with technical specialists and users to determine whether the original objectives
are met and how is it done, along with the exploration of the need for modifications or
revisions. Then the system would be fine tuned in terms of meeting the requirements,
correcting the errors, improvement