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The SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) methodology, used by IT departments for over 50 years, provides IT management with control over application development. The failure to implement SDLC often occurs in small to medium-size IT shops in their desire to save time and money, which can result in catastrophic errors, schedule and cost slippages, and application failure. SDLC consists of a collection of forms and templates that are used to both monitor and control all phases of application development for both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. The more common Waterfall methodology consists of project initiation, planning, business requirements definition, application development, testing, turnover to production, and project closure and maintenance phases. SDLCforms consists of a huge inventory of forms and templates for every conceivable need based on the Microsoft Office suite (word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio & Project) available in scalable packages from 8 to 93 forms depending on management’s desire for control. Examples are: - Waterfall project charter, business case, project plan, business requirements, use case, user acceptance, lessons learned, project status, and many more. - Agile vision statement, release plan, sprint planning, planning poker, and sprint burn-up, burndown and velocity charts, and more. SDLCforms have been developed to a rigorous formatting standard and are completely customizable to “brand” the forms to your own image by incorporating your company name and logo, confidentiality statement and copyright notice, as a minimum. Since the forms are based on Microsoft Office, you can make any changes you desire to any element (text, graphics and tables) within each document. Companies can easily spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop a customized SDLC process. SDLCforms can be purchased (as packages or individual forms) with a perpetual license and immediately downloaded to your server at a cost as low as $1.25 per form.