Compare and contrast the PM life cycle with the SDLC?

Answer 1

PMLC: It has 4 main phases: initiation, planning, execution, and closure. The basic steps for each phase are:

Initiation- develop business case, undertake feasibility study, establish project charter, appoint team, set up project office, and perform phase review.

Planning- create project plan, resource plan, financial plan, quality plan, risk plan, acceptance plan, communication plan, procurement plan, and contact suppliers.

Execution- Make deliverables, perform time management, cost management, quality management, change management, risk management, issue management, procurement management, acceptance management, and communications management.

Closure- Perform project closure and project completion.

SDLC: It has 6 main phases: system engineering, requirement analysis, system analysis and design, coding, testing, and maintenance.

In system engineering, the requirements of the client are completely understood and a documentation is done. In the requirement analysis, the feasibility of the project is checked- whether the project should be done or not. During system analysis, designing is done that would result in coding. The next phase is coding, where the actual code is written. Testing is done to test the code, and maintenance is the help provided by the project team to the users for many years to come.

The PMLC has different phases, and is more successful at managing projects than SDLC. It is more clearly defined and has room for flexibility, which can take different forms depending from project to project. Besides, SDLC works only for software projects (because of designing and coding phases), which PMLC can be used for any kinds of projects.