Document Title: Systems development, steps and methodology

Paper code: 13111

Systems development, steps and methodology

Question:

During a recent department workshop you participated in a project of coming up with a new human resource management system for the department. However, during the process, you realized that the department needed a simple and small system to use as they understand their requirements; secondly you realized that the users were not that knowledgeable in their daily operations, so the requirements from them were ambiguous and volatile.

1. With a clear illustration discuss the steps of a suitable system development methodology that would fit the situation of your department.     
2. What are the reasons for and against your choice in (a) above.
3. Apart from the situation above, under what other circumstances would you recommend the same methodology of system development?

a)

In systems engineering, information systems and software engineering, the systems development life cycle (SDLC), also referred to as the application development life-cycle, is a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an information system (Wynn, and Clarkson, 2018). In simple terms, systems development is the process of defining, designing, testing, and implementing a new software application or program.

Considering that the workshop informed the department of the need for the coming up with a human resource management system, to cater for the 200 staff members,  requires a suite of systems used to manage human resources and related processes throughout the employee lifecycle (Zeebaree and Hussan, 2019). There is need to define and implement standards and adopt an appropriate system development methodology;