Irrespective to the improvement of software or hardware, what is crucial is and is to understand is, the challenge that need to understand to users, in terms of their requirement, what is currently receiving and what they expect more.
Software Development Life Cycle, in what ever application may be is the core basis for functionality any IT Company. Outsourcing is an important part for the industry and heavy tendency in resorting to outsourcing significantly, complexity of the said process increases and naturally risk factor also goes up. Given the circumstances, developing an application outsourced, raise the importance of the Requirements, its gathering and design and not fall in not meeting user expectations when it is too late.
The most critical change, however, is the participation of a more sophisticated and unknown user: the consumer. He or she not necessarily be the front face of the organisation but an individual who will be the owner of the system, thus makes him the most unusual individual: he/she does not participate as part of an internal organization, or external client, rather a transactional force at the beginning and later the owners that comes in and out of the application with an enormous amount of uncertainty and constant change in behaviors and needs. Organisations rely on these individuals in determining the viability of the system to proceed with.
It is imperative that we expand analysis and design through SMART requirements in to provide developers from inside and outside the business to clearly understand what is needed thus enabling them to deliver the required.
Applications need to change more often, so that object-based design is no longer an alternative, rather a necessity to allow organizations to continually evolve and mature their abilities to serve their clientele.
