Talk:Software development process

Hm, what is the relationship bewteen software development process and project lifecycle? Much duplication between these pages, needs to be clarified. - Guppie

Also, what is relationship between methodology and software development process?

It all comes down to definition. Project lifecycle is to with project, not necessarily software. And software is often only one component of a system (requirements definition, analysis, design, hardware, network infrastructure, disaster recovery, operations manuals, user manuals, marketing, training, etc etc). And a methodology can apply to any one or any subset of all these. Or to the project. You could even have a project to develop a methodology. We have different words for different things! Luckily. Paul Beardsell 16:45, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

System/Software Design/Development Process/Life/Cycle Merger Discussion

Here is the single point of discussion for the merger of the following articles with Google results:

1. "Software development process" - 912,000 results
2. "Project lifecycle" - 383,000 results
3. "Software development life cycle" - 300,000 results
4. "Software development cycle" - 160,000 results
5. "System Development Life Cycle" - 112,000 results
6. "Systems development life cycle" - 105,000 results
7. "System Design Life Cycle" - 925 results

How shall we deal with them? -- Zondor 03:37, 22 October 2005 (UTC) -- Zondor 03:48, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

• Any objections to having separate Software_development_process and System_Development_Life_Cycle that have explicit reference to each other, and merge / redirect the rest? —Dlwl→龜 22:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

• I think that is a great idea. Limbo socrates 15:24, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

• What about simply rolling the above list up from the bottom? Redirect the last to the previous, appending anything useful; lather rinse repeat.... Limbo socrates 18:31, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

• It's an excellent idea! Why not? What wouldn't be good about it? Jake 16:48, 11 November 2005 (UTC)