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3. The End-to-End Product Journey

Aswin Pranam
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Santa Clara, California, USA
 
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there”
—Lewis Carroll
The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) describes the process for planning, designing, engineering, and releasing a software product or service. SDLC doesn’t exist to prescribe a strict process for building products, but rather illustrates a logical sequence of events that need to take place in order for a product to be considered done. As we’ll see later on, an iterative approach is ideal for software development when compared with a fixed, linear timeline. SDLC is widely understood ...

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