CONCEPT

SDLC

The Software Development Life Cycle — the sequence of phases through which software is defined, built, verified, deployed, and maintained. Traditionally designed around human teams and largely invariant, it is the reference frame against which AI-era changes are measured as agents compress, reorder, or automate individual phases.

Origin

A foundational software-engineering concept since the 1960s-70s, when development was first formalized into ordered, repeatable phases.

definition: Software development lifecycle
integration zones: upstream, middle, downstream

ADLC

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