Review of the Myths on Original Software Development Model

Abstract

Software development is integral to today’s digitally monopolized business environments with increasing mobile, web, and desktop applications. With the growing emphasis to accommodating change in software development using agile approaches, the software development life cycle (SDLC) is often equated synonymously with the waterfall approach that never existed in the original proposition of software development life cycle. This paper demystifies these concepts so that the SDLC is correctly understood further emphasizing that similar misinterpretations do not lead to incorrect understanding of agile methodologies during software development.