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System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Standards

This document is intended as a guideline for all Application Managers, Project Managers, Project Leaders, Business Analysts, Database Designers and Developers involved in planning, delivering and maintaining applications for the Ministry. For more details refer to the Systems Development Life Cycle Overview (SDLC) document.

The Ministry Project Manager is responsible for the overall co-ordination of the Quality Assurance of all application deliverables. The Information Management Branch, Business Analyst is responsible for ensuring the application deliverables are quality assured from a technical perspective.

Note: A listing of all available standards for the Ministry is detailed in the Alpha List of Existing Standards.

Phase (Click Phase Name for Purpose)	Deliverable	Contributes to Deliverable	Quality Assures Deliverable	Tasks appropriate for Warehouse Access Applications
Phase 1: Planning	Quality Assurance	Quality Assurance is not actually a deliverable but a guide that must be followed for all deliverables	as appropriate	Required
	SDLC Rightsizing Matrix (329k pdf)	Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst, IMB Technical Experts	Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst, IMB Technical Experts, as appropriate	Required
	Project Charter (word document)	Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst, IMB Technical Experts	Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst, IMB Technical Experts, as appropriate	Required
	RFP Template (word document)	Ministry Project Mgr., Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst	Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst, IMB Technical Experts, as appropriate
Phase 2: Definition	Project Plan (word document)	Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst, IMB Technical Experts	Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst, IMB Technical Experts, as appropriate
Phase 3: Analysis	Business Process Model	Business Experts	Business Experts - Business Business Analyst - Technical	Required
	Software Requirements Specification (word document)	Business Experts, Development Team, IMB Technical Experts	Business Experts, Business Data Admin. (major) - Technical Application Architecture (minor) - Technical	Required to the appropriate level of detail
	Oracle Designer Repository	Business Experts, Development Team, IMB Technical Experts	Business Experts, Business Data Admin. (major) - Technical Application Architecture (minor) - Technical	Model only to represent data accessed
	Data Conversion Analysis	Business Experts, Development Team	Business Experts, IMB business Analyst
Phase 4: Design	Software Design Description (Word document)	Business Experts, Development Team, IMB Technical Experts	Business Experts, Business Application Architecture (major) - Technical Data Administration (minor) - Technical	Required to the appropriate level of detail
	Oracle Designer Repository	Business Experts, Development Team, IMB Technical Experts	Business Experts, Business Application Architecture (major) - Technical Data Administration (minor) - Technical
	Data Conversion Design	Business Experts (minor), Development Team, IMB Technical Experts (data architecture)	Data Architecture
Phase 5: Build	IMF Development	Business Experts, IMB Technical Experts, Development Team	IMB Technical Experts
	Web Mapping Application Development Standards	Business Experts, IMB Technical Experts, Development Team	IMB Technical Experts
	Developer Guidelines	Business Experts, Development Team	Application Architecture
	Application Forms & Reports	Business Experts	Business Experts, Business Application Architecture - Technical
	Tested Application	Development Team	Business Experts
	Data Conversion Application	Development Team	Business Experts, Application Architecture
Phase 6: Implementation	User Procedures	Business Experts	Business Experts	Required
	On-Line Help Text	Business Experts	Business Experts	Required
	User Acceptance Test	Business Experts, Development Team (support)	Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst - Technical	Required
	User Training Plan	Business Experts	Business Experts	Required
	Implementation Plan	Business Experts, IMB Business Analyst	IMB Business Analyst	Required
	Application Delivery and Migration	Development Team, Application Architecture (advise), IMB Business Analyst (Coordinate)	Application Architecture	Required

PHASE AND PURPOSE

Phase 1: PLANNING

Required to determine the feasibility of whether the project should proceed or not.
Produces a high level overview document of the project which relates to the project requirements and scope.
To include requirements for data replication to the warehouse.

Phase 2: DEFINITION

Defines what, when, who, and how the project will be carried out.
This phase expands on the high-level project outline and provides a specific and detailed project definition.
This phase assumes that an RFP has been prepared and distributed, a contract project development team chosen and a Project Manager appointed.

Phase 3: ANALYSIS

Required to understand and document the user's needs for the system.
Documents in detail the scope, business objectives and requirements of the system.
Emphasizes what the system is to do .
Includes analysis of what data needs to be replicated to the data warehouse.

Phase 4: DESIGN

Describes how the proposed system is to be built.
The design is specific to the technical requirements the system will be required to operate in and the tools used in building the system.
Impacts the build and implementation phases of the SDLC.
Describes movement of data between operational databases and the data warehouse.

Phase 5: BUILD

Deals with the development, unit testing and integration testing of the system modules, screens and reports and data replication to the data warehouse if required.
Carried out in parallel with the development of user procedures and user documentation from the implementation phase.

Phase 6: IMPLEMENTATION

Prepare for and carry out the implementation of the developed system through user acceptance testing to full production and warehouse population.