Foundation in Business Analysis

StayAhead Training Ltd

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In London

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Days

Suitable for: This course prepares participants to sit the one-hour, multiple-choice examination leading to the Foundation in Systems Development certificate offered by the Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB). This certificate is a specialist module for the ISEB Diploma in Solution Development.

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Start date

London
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6 Long Lane, Barbican, EC1A 9HF

Start date

On request

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Course programme

  1. Introduction to systems development
    • What is systems development
    • The scope of systems development
    • Systems development and other disciplines
    • Offshoring and outsourcing of systems development work
  2. Lifecycle types and their rationales
    • Systems development lifecycles in concept
    • Lifecycles - waterfall, 'V' model, incremental development model, evolutionary development model
    • The Unified Process
    • Systems development lifecycles compared
    • Adaptation and customisation of the lifecycles
    • Roles and responsibilities in systems development
    • Project lifecycles
    • The project manager in systems development
    • Terms of reference
  3. Business analysis
    • Business analysis defined
    • Business analysis in the systems development lifecycle
    • Outcomes from business analysis
  4. Requirements engineering
    • Introduction to requirements engineering and its key areas
    • Requirements elicitation techniques
    • Types of requirements
    • Prioritising requirements
    • Managing requirements
    • Analysing and validating requirements
  5. Making a business case
    • Introduction - the role of a business case
    • Assessing feasibility
    • Elements of a business case
    • Identifying, evaluating and selecting options
    • Cost/benefit analysis
    • Impact and risk analysis
  6. Programming and development approaches
    • Drivers affecting the choice of approach
    • Approaches described: agile software development; object-oriented development; service-oriented development; open source development; Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solutions
  7. Systems modelling and specification techniques
    • Reasons for modelling; modelling from different perspectives
    • Modelling process and business rules
    • Modelling static data
    • Modelling dynamic behaviour
    • Modelling the user interface
    • Cross-referencing different modelling techniques
    • Documentation and specification
  8. Systems design
    • Systems design in context
    • Objectives and constraints of design
    • Input design
    • Input technology
    • Output technology
    • Process design
    • Data design
    • Code design
    • Security design
  9. Systems architecture
    • What is systems architecture? Types of architecture
    • Stakeholders and roles in architecture
    • Management of the architecture
    • The tiered approach to an IT systems development
    • Service-oriented architecture and service-oriented development applications
  10. Implementation and changeover
    • File and data creation
    • Supporting documentation
    • Training
    • System implementation
  11. Systems development and delivery: evaluation and maintenance
    • Maintenance in the systems development lifecycle
    • Metrics for evaluating a software project
    • Post-project review
    • Testing in the maintenance stage
  12. Software support tools
    • Configuration management tools
    • Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools
    • Computer aided software testing (CAST) tools
    • Advantages and disadvantages of computerised support tools

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