What is SDLC and different phases

1.Initiation feasibility(first)

(Proposal means ideas taken into consideration.)

Senior manager

(mostly)

No role for BA

Feasibility and proposal business document.

Microsoft Word.

2. Planning Phase

Project Manager

Mostly BA has no role here too.  Only few times when project manages wants to discuss with BA.

Project plan.

Process map.

MS word and

MS Visio.

3.Analysis

Requirement gathering , Requirement engineering and requirement analysis.

This is the most important stage in SDLC for BA.

Business users.

Major role.

Rough sketch for business requirements.

BRD

FRD

FRS

Use cases

Few companies use UML diagrams and draw use case diagrams.

MS word

MS word

MS word

MS word

Rational requisite pro/MS visio

4. Design

Senior developer/ Architect/ Senior programmer.

Some role if something is left in analysis.

Design document

Architect document.

MS word.

5. Development

Programmer (complete hard core programming)

Few times only when developers need some clarifications / or the program has inconsistencies.

Software code

6. Testing

Testers

Business users

Bas role is Imp. UAT (user acceptance testing) is done here and then users will sign off.

Test cases with pass/fail statuses.

Testing report summary.

7. Deployment / Implementation.

Separate teams.

Some times developers if any problems occurs.

No role

Report of successful implementation of project.