Assigment 2

If I would my relate my objectives in life to a SDLC (System Development Life Cycle), I would choose it to weigh more on the adaptive side and weigh lesser on the predictive side. Why? Its simple. In the real world there are many factors that could affect your objectives in life and also your SDLC. There are this factors that are not in the plans and that budge into your life. Citing an example is a "failed subject", we did not plan to have one. Right?. In fact we never thought we would have one. We set our goal on our diploma not thinking of the events that could occur in between the day you set foot on this university and the day of our graduation rites. In short if we compare it to a SDLC, we have to adopt on the situation that comes day by day. Therefore for me it is better to be on the adoptive side that the predictive side because we should be honest to ourselves that we cannot predict everything.

Moving on. Lets say that my objective is to graduate. I am just referring to my medium term objective here because my long term objective is to be successful in life. We are not aware of the phases that we came through but we the truth is we already finished a phase such as planning. Therefore my own model of a SDLC is planning-learning-building-trial-implementation.

Planning

If we assume that our objective is to attain a diploma, planning is the part on where should we attain it and what kind of diploma should we attain. We planned to take exams on several schools and consider several courses. If you are like me, I planned to take exam only and only in USeP and enlist myself as a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science student. That is what I planned. A plan must be final and certain because coming back at this phase only means you have to start all over again and you dont want that to happen. We may not be aware but we have already finished this phase because we are here now as what we have planned.

Learning

This is the phase where we learn and gather information to attain our goal. We do this subject by subject. This is the phase where we absorb knowledge in the field of IT. So ask we can see, we are still in the learning phase.

Building

What I am trying to emphasize in the word building is building of one self as a future IT professional . After the learning phase it is up to an individual on how he builds himself as an IT proffesional. He can choose whether to discard some of his learnings ang take what he thinks can be useful for him.

Trial

This is the phase where we put ourselves in trials such as quizzes, exam and projects. This is where we test if what we build ourselves on is enough. This is also the most crucial part because in this phase we see if we should go back to building, learning or much worse back to planning. If we pass this trial therefore we go back again to learning but this time with another subject and so the cycle continious until we have nothing to try anymore so we proceed to the implementation phase.

Implementaion

This is the phase where we are suppose to be holding our hard earned diplomas and join the real world of IT. This is the phase where we take a step into a larger objective. This is the phase where we attained our goal.

Where is adoptive there? What is adoptive there is we should break a large picture into smaller pieces. We should be able to adopt in those smaller pieces before jumping into another piece. We should also learn to adopt if we have absorbed a failing grade. We should be able to adopt whatever comes. For example you have a certain problem that you have not predicted, it is more advantages if you could learn to adopt with that problem.