The University of Texas at Dallas Special Homework #1- Lifecycle Management Process Swapnili Jadhao 02/25/2015

SYSM 6301 Spring 2015

General “Case Study” Analysis Questions: 1. What was the general “subject” of the article? The general subject of this article is analysis of the ISO/IEC 24748 systems and software lifecycle management guide against other standards and academic material, and proposes additions to make to the standard for it to properly promote and support software quality engineering. The article explains the results of a term research project focused on the analysis guide for life cycle management a software quality engineering perspective. 2. What lifecycle stages were primarily focused on that needs to be improved? The lifecycle stages those were primarily focused on and needs to be improved are as listed below: • Concept – In this stage the stakeholder’s requirements trigger the project and drive the whole engineering effort. • Development – In this stage the stakeholder’s requirements are refined with the perspective of quality and are ‘baselined’. • Production – In this stage considering the quality model selected and the baseline accumulated from previous stages quality activities will be performed according to the plans. • Utilization – In this stage, the monitoring of performance and identifying, classifying and reporting of anomalies, deficiencies, and failures occurs. • Support – In this stage, the system-of-interest is deployed and logistics for operation and maintenance support are handled. This stage also considers the support and maintenance quality plan established in previous stages. • Retirement - The Retirement stage is executed to retire the systems-of-interest and eventually transfer its services to a new system, while preserving data quality, integrity and security. The Retirement stage may also allow for gathering lessons