"First, I had to research software development and the steps involved in it. From my research I was able to conclude that a majority of the processes and deliverables. As next step I had done research online and gathered various templates needed for my project. The first phase of the development life cycle is to gather requirements. I had to acquire the requirements from Mr.Mitchell which were: make individual groups with each group average as close to the class average as possible, set maximum and minimum students per group, feed grades from an excel spreadsheet to the group generator, show each group average once groups are created"