7-Stage Waterfall SDLC Process with Validation Steps

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This slide lays out the waterfall software development life cycle as a seven-step staircase, with each numbered box stepping down and to the right of the one before and joined by elbow arrows. The stages run from system conception and initiation through requirements, high-level design, detailed design, coding, integration and testing, to maintenance. A description sits beside most stages, and the first three add a validation question. It suits software project overviews, phase planning, team onboarding and teaching sequential development. Titles, descriptions, colours and numbering can all be edited, so the steps can be renamed or reworded for your own process.