Editing Systems development life cycle (section)

== History ==
According to Elliott (2004), SDLC "originated in the 1960s, to develop large scale functional [[business systems]] in an age of large scale [[business conglomerate]]s. Information systems activities revolved around heavy [[data processing]] and [[number crunching]] routines".<ref name="Ell04">Geoffrey Elliott (2004) ''Global Business Information Technology''. p.87.</ref>

The [[structured systems analysis and design method]] (SSADM) was produced for the UK government [[Office of Government Commerce]] in the 1980s. Ever since, according to Elliott (2004), "the traditional life cycle approaches to systems development have been increasingly replaced with alternative approaches and frameworks, which attempted to overcome some of the inherent deficiencies of the traditional SDLC".<ref name="Ell04"/>