At the end of this lesson you would be able to know the various stages involved in a system life cycle and you would be able to understand the various methodologies available for system development.

2.1 Introduction to Life Cycle Models
2.1.1 Activities involved in any Life cycle Model
2.1.2.1 Preliminary Investigation
2.1.2.2 Determination of System's requirements
2.1.2.3 Design of System
2.1.2.4 Development of Software
2.1.2.5 System Testing
2.1.2.6 Implementation and Maintenance

2.2 Different Life Cycles Models
2.2.1 Traditional/Waterfall Software Development Model

2.3 Alternate Development Models
2.3.1 Prototyping
2.3.2 Object Oriented Methodology
2.3.3 Dynamic System Analysis

2.4 Comparing different Models

Case Study & Review Questions

Summary
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