No system, product, or piece of software comes out of a vacuum, fully-formed. They are a result of trial-and-error, planning, and strategic execution. Sometimes, you can hit it out of the park right away. Other times, you’re saddled with something that took too much time, cost too much, and doesn’t work in the existing market. This is why development teams rely on the product development lifecycle. Nowhere is having a set methodology more crucial than in the IT world.