What is product lifecycle development?

Summing up the seven stages of New Product Development: idea generation, idea screening, concept development, and testing, market strategy/business analysis, product development, market testing, and market entry/commercialization .

In brief, the product development life cycle is a series of consecutive stages that a product passes through . Usually, the entire path is broken into four periods – introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.24 Kas 2021

In my mind the PDLC is the overarching process of product development that includes the business units. The SDLC is the specific steps within the PDLC that are completed by the technical organization (product managers included).