AN OVERVIEW OF THE DATABASE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

All information systems are developed to meet a set of information needs or requirements that belong to a set of users. An important part of the overall development process is to understand and document those requirements so that the information system that is developed and eventually delivered does in fact help the users by meeting their requirements.

There are a number of different approaches to the development of information systems, with a number of formalised methods available to the development team. All of these methods use diagramming techniques to record the results of the analysis of the information requirements.

All systems, whether supported by information technology or not, help to ...

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