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The Agile System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) This article covers: The scope of life cycles Concept: Pre-planning Inception Construction iterations Release iterations Production Retirement Enterprise IT Lifecycles 1. The Scope of Life Cycles As we described in the book The Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) the scope of life cycles can vary dramatically. For example, Figure 1 depicts the Scrum construction life cycle whereas Figure 2 depicts an extended version of that diagram which covers the full system development life cycle (SDLC). Later in this article we talk about an Enterprise IT Lifecycle. My points are: Solution development is complicated. Although its comforting to think that development is as simple as Figure 1 makes it out to be, the fact is that we know that its not. If you adopt a development process that doesnt actually address the full development cycle then youve adopted little more than consultantware in the end. My experience is that you need to go beyond the construction life cycle of Figure 1 to the full SDLC of Figure 2 (ok, Retirement may not be all that critical) if youre to be successful. Theres more to IT than development. To be successful at IT you must take a multi-system, multi-life cycle stage view as we show in the discussion of the Enterprise IT Lifecycles. The reality is that organizations have many potential endeavours in the planning stage (which Ill call the Concept Phase in this article), many in development, and many in production. Figure 1 uses the terminology of the Scrum methodology. The rest of this article uses the terminology popularized in the mid-1990s by the Unified Process (Sprint = Iteration, Backlog = Stack, Daily Scrum Meeting = Daily Meeting) and also adopted by Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). Figure 1 shows how agilists treat requirements like a prioritized stack, pulling just enough work off the stack for the current iteration (in Scrum iterations/sprints a