Once upon a time, software development consisted of a programmer writing code to solve a problem or automate a procedure. Nowadays, systems are so big and complex that teams of architects, analysts, programmers, testers and users must work together to create the millions of lines of custom-written code that drive our enterprises.

To manage this, at Binarysoft we use system development life cycle (SDLC) model: waterfall.

Waterfall model is: a sequence of stages in which the output of each stage becomes the input for the next. These stages can be characterized and divided up in different ways, including the following:

• Project planning, feasibility study: Establishes a high-level view of the intended project and determines its goals.
  
  
• Systems analysis, requirements definition: Refines project goals into defined functions and operation of the intended application. Analyzes end-user information needs.
  
  
• Systems design: Describes desired features and operations in detail, including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams, pseudocode and other documentation.
  
  
• Implementation: The real code is written here.
  
  
• Integration and testing: Brings all the pieces together into a special testing environment, then checks for errors, bugs and interoperability.
  
  
• Acceptance, installation, deployment: The final stage of initial development, where the software is put into production and runs actual business.
  
  
• Maintenance: What happens during the rest of the software's life: changes, correction, additions, moves to a different computing platform and more. This, the least glamorous and perhaps most important step of all, goes on seemingly forever.