SDLC Explained for WordPress Developers: Seven Phases Traced Over Sixty Years
The 4wp.dev team presents the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as an umbrella framework for WordPress developers, with its phases acting as the structural ribs. The article traces the concept's origins to the 1960s software crisis, when NATO conference participants called for engineering discipline in response to late and unreliable projects. It explains that SDLC is not a methodology itself but the sequence of phases that Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and Kanban all follow. The piece walks through the phases from planning and requirements to design, build, testing, deployment, and maintenance, noting that skipping any one of them causes predictable problems. It also summarizes how later developments, including Agile in 2001, DevOps in 2009, and AI-assisted coding in the 2020s, have changed how the cycle is run without eliminating it.
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