1. system designing
1.1. architectural design
1.2. design of dataflow
1.3. user interface design
1.3.1. output design
1.3.1.1. form
1.3.1.2. content
1.3.1.3. timeliness
1.3.1.4. volume
1.3.1.5. format
1.3.1.6. media
1.3.2. input design
1.3.2.1. form
1.3.2.2. content
1.3.2.3. timeliness
1.3.2.4. volume
1.3.2.5. format
1.3.2.6. media
1.4. physical design
1.5. system operating platform
1.6. internal design control
2. system acquisition and development
2.1. system acquisition
2.1.1. acquisition standard
2.1.2. acquiring system component
2.1.2.1. vendor selection
2.1.2.2. geographical location
2.1.2.3. presented by selected vendor
2.1.2.4. evaluation of user feedback
2.1.3. other acquisition aspects and practices
2.1.3.1. hardware acquisition
2.1.3.2. software acquisition
2.1.3.3. contract,licence, copyright violation
2.1.3.4. validation of vendors proposal
2.2. system development
2.2.1. coding standard
2.2.2. programming language
2.2.3. debugging
2.2.4. documentation
2.2.5. maintenance
3. system testing
3.1. unit testing
3.1.1. statistical analysis
3.1.1.1. disk check
3.1.1.2. structured walk through
3.1.1.3. code inspection
3.1.2. dynamic analysis
3.1.2.1. black box
3.1.2.2. white box
3.1.2.3. grey box
3.2. integration testing
3.2.1. bottom up
3.2.2. top down
3.2.3. regression
3.3. system testing
3.3.1. recovery
3.3.2. security
3.3.3. stress
3.3.4. performance
3.4. final acceptance
3.4.1. quality assurance
3.4.2. user acceptance
3.5. internal testing control
4. preliminary investigation
4.1. identification of problem
4.2. identification of objectives
4.3. deliniation of scope
4.3.1. functionality requirements
4.3.2. data to be processed
4.3.3. control requirements
4.3.4. performance requirements
4.3.5. constraints
4.3.6. interface
4.3.7. reliability requirements
4.4. feasibility study
4.4.1. technical
4.4.2. financial
4.4.3. economical
4.4.4. schedule or time
4.4.5. resources
4.4.6. operational
4.4.7. behavioral
4.4.8. legal
4.5. reporting to management
4.6. internal control aspects
5. system requirement analysis
5.1. fact finding
5.1.1. collecting document
5.1.2. questionnaire
5.1.3. interviews
5.1.4. observation
5.2. analysis of present system
5.2.1. reviewing historical aspects
5.2.2. analyzing inputs
5.2.3. reviewing data files
5.2.4. reviewing methods, procedures
5.2.5. analyzing outputs
5.2.6. review ic
5.2.7. modeling the existing system
5.2.8. overall
5.3. analysis of proposed system
5.3.1. output
5.3.2. database
5.3.3. input
5.3.4. methods
5.3.5. workload
5.3.6. ic
5.4. reporting to management
6. system implementation & maintenance
6.1. system implementaion
6.1.1. equipment installation
6.1.1.1. site preparation
6.1.1.2. installation of h/w & s/w
6.1.1.3. equipment checkout
6.1.2. training personnel
6.1.3. sys. changeover strat.
6.1.3.1. direct/abrupt
6.1.3.2. phased
6.1.3.3. pilot
6.1.3.4. parallel
6.1.4. conversion activities
6.1.4.1. procedure conversion
6.1.4.2. file conversion
6.1.4.3. sys. conversion
6.1.4.4. scheduling personnel and equipment
6.2. post implementation review & system maintenance
6.2.1. post implementation review
6.2.1.1. development evaluation
6.2.1.2. operational evaluation
6.2.1.3. information evaluation
6.2.2. sys. maintenance
6.2.2.1. schedule maintenance
6.2.2.2. rescue maintenance
6.2.2.3. corrective maintenance
6.2.2.4. adaptive maintenance
6.2.2.5. perfective maintenance
6.2.2.6. preventive maintenance