Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of A Music Streaming App

SDLC of A Music Streaming App
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SDLC of A Music Streaming App
Part 1 - What are we building?
 A music streaming app.
Part 2 – People Involved in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Their Roles
 1. Planning
Project manager 
-Responsible for planning and follow-up of activities (Kaur & Kaur, 2015). 
-Responsible for managing the scope, risks, budget, resources, timeframes, project schedule, and quality of work.
Project sponsor
-Provides the funds for the project. 
-Evaluate the business case for this app and ensure it fulfils the market needs. 
 UX/UI designers 
-They come up with the best user interface for the streaming app, which is user-friendly.
Systems architect
-Helps in getting a deeper understanding of the system development process.
-Contribute to setting a budget. 
CTO
-Ensures that the project (for the music app) fits well with the company’s overall technology strategy.
2. Analysis
Project manager
-Responsible for planning and following up on project activities. 
-Facilitates the proper management of the scope, risks, budget, resources, timeframes, project schedule, and quality of work.
Business analyst
-Defines the functional requirements of the app. 
Risk analyst
-Determines the risks related to the project and ways to mitigate them together with the project team (in workshops, for example).
Systems architect 
-Analyzes both system architecture and design.
UX/UI designers 
-Help concretize the requirements of the app in a simple prototype. 
3. Design
Project manager
-Responsible for planning and follow-ups. 
-Accountable for managing the scope, risks, budget, resources, timeframes, project schedule, and the quality of work.-Guides in front-end and back-end development (Kaur & Kaur, 2015).
 UX/UI designers 
-Come up with the first user interface design of the streaming app.  
Security engineer
-Specifies security requirements of the app. 
Test manager
-Develops a test plan and strategy.
System architect
-Builds a technical blueprint of how the proposed system will work.
Infrastructure architect
-Defines servers, solutions, networking, security and robustness of the physical production solution (including servers and communications). 
Data analyst or database architect
-Responsible for analyzing and structuring the information to be stored as part of the system. 
4. Development
 Project manager
-Accountable for planning and following up activities to ensure nothing is omitted (Kaur & Kaur, 2015). 
-Responsible for managing the scope, risks, budget, resources, timeframes, project schedule, and quality of work.
 Frontend developers 
-Develop the user interface of the app (the user interaction of the app). 
Backend developers
-Develop the backend system that the app communicates with.
 Fullstack engineer
-Ensures the perfect frontend and backend communication. 
Security engineer
-If the systems have high-security requirements, we could have a specific security engineer in this phase. 
UX/UI designers
-May not be their most active part in the project, but they will be responsible for ensuring that the solution meets the UX/UI requirements.
Test manager
-Takes responsibility for preparing the test cases for the test phase.
5. Testing
Project manager
-Responsible for planning and foll...