10-Phase System Development Life Cycle Timeline

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This slide lays out the system development life cycle as a single horizontal arrow divided into 10 equal columns, so every phase is readable on one page. Each column has an icon, a phase title, a colored bar and a description block. The phases run from initiation and system concept development through planning, requirements analysis, design, development, integration and test, and implementation, to operations and maintenance and disposition. Use it to explain an SDLC to a project team, a client or a class, or to document the stages of a software or IT project. Titles, descriptions, icons and bar colors can all be edited, and the text blocks can be shortened to suit your own process.