Week 2 in FIT2001

OK Its week two and after reading chapters 2 and 3 I'm ready for a holiday.

Chapter two showed me the details of SDLC System Development Life Cycle which cover the life of a system development. It starts with the types of approaches to SDLC being predictive and adaptive and the text showed that its neve one or the other but a fusion of the both.

We looked at the waterfall approach to SDLC and then the spiral approach which i think is better since you have the opportunity to constantly improve.

We looked at the SDLC phases being Project Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation and Support and then how these steps are constructed, managed and implemented..

We looked at some methadologies and how its made off models, tools and techniques.

We looked at some approaches to SDLC inc. OO, Info Engineering, Structured, Modern and traditional.

We looked at tools that can be used for SDCL such as visio, CASE tools, Rational XDE Professional... Actually i like using visio but now that i am using MS Studio .net i think ill be starting to use XDE as an add on to it. If it will save work time then I'm all for it.

In Chapter 3 we looked at the analyst as a project manager and how project management skills and techniques are used by the analyst to fulfill the system objectives and project needs.

We looked at project initiation, management and elements that contribute to successful and unsuccessful projects, which to me was great because it gives me clear direction to what i should do when i undertake projects of my own.

We looked at the fundamentals of projects such as Gantt charts, pert charts, tasks, activities and schedule brake down structures. We also looked at the costs and financial management side of projects.

Week 2 done... 8 more to go..