| Subject | English | German |
| comp., MS | database development life cycle | Datenbankentwicklungszyklus (A structured process that is imposed upon the development of the database portion of an application. It is essentially a subset of the software development life cycle that is specific to one or more databases in an application) |
| comp., MS | development cycle | Entwicklungszyklus (The process of application development from definition of requirements to finished product, including the following stages: analysis, design and prototyping, software coding and testing, and implementation) |
| med. | development cycle | Entwicklungszyklus |
| busin., IT | program development cycle | Programmentwicklungszyklus |
| IT | software development cycle | Software-Entwicklungszyklus |
| IT | systems development life cycle | Software-Entwicklungszyklus |