Systems Development Essentials

Course Objectives

This course will enable delegates to:

* Describe several lifecycle approaches to systems development and describe in detail one approach that embraces one or more of these lifecycles
* Identify the techniques, disciplines and tools required for systems development and implementation
* Identify different architectures for systems development solutions
* Investigate and interpret business requirements to produce systems requirements
* Quality assure systems requirements, documentation and models
* Make effective use of different methods of communication
* Prepare for the ISEB Certificate in Systems Development Essentials

Course Content

The Role of the Systems Analyst and Designer
Identify the actors / roles & responsibilities
Characteristics of the systems analyst / designer

Systems Architecture
Different levels of architecture
Inputs at Enterprise, Systems and Infrastructure level
Impacts of design considerations

Development Approaches
Component based, evolutionary/iterative/agile
Bespoke development and software package solutions

Systems Development Lifecycles
Waterfall, V model, Incremental, Spiral
Advantages, disadvantages and selection of an approach

Methods and Approaches
Structure and content of a chosen and representative method
Description and interpretation of representative models
Roles and products within the chosen method

Systems Investigation
Workshops, Prototyping, Interviewing, Questionnaires, Scenario analysis
Functional and non-functional requirements definition
Human aspects of systems investigation & introducing change
Documenting system requirements

Systems Design, Implementation & Maintenance
Aspects of the production environment
Design principles & constraints (legal, ethical, financial)
Sign off and hand over
Post-implementation reviews
Service Level Agreements

Case Tools
Features
Life-cycle coverage
Requirements traceability
Advantages and disadvantages