No matter which SDLC flavor your follow, every process goes through these steps:

  1. Identify – What do we want?
  2. Plan – What do we want?
  3. Design – How do we get what we want?
  4. Build – Let’s create what we want.
  5. Quality – Did we get what we want?
  6. Deploy – Let’s use what we got.
  7. Monitor – Can we make what we got better?