Systems Development Essentials with Agile

Course

In London

£ 1,225 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Days

Suitable for: The course prepares participants to sit a one-hour, open book, examination leading to the certificate in Systems Development Essentials offered by the Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB). This certificate is a core certificate in the ISEB Diploma in Solution Development and is also a specialist certificate in the ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis.

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Location

Start date

London
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6 Long Lane, Barbican, EC1A 9HF

Start date

On request

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Course programme

  1. Roles in systems development
    • The purposes, objectives and tasks of systems development
    • Roles and responsibilities in systems development
    • Technical and interpersonal skills of the analysts
    • The emergence of skills frameworks
  2. Systems architecture
    • Enterprise, systems and infrastructure levels of architecture
    • Inputs at an enterprise level
    • Inputs at system and infrastructure level
    • Model Driven Architecture
  3. Development approaches
    • Bespoke development
    • Commercial off the shelf (COTS) software package solutions
    • Configuring and customising COTS software package solutions
    • Component-based systems development
    • Service-based solutions and other approaches
    • Evolutionary prototyping
  4. Systems development lifecycles
    • Waterfall model
    • V model
    • Incremental model
    • Spiral (evolutionary) model
    • Advantages and disadvantages of each approach
    • Selection of an appropriate development approach
  5. Methodologies
    • Traditional and structured approaches
    • Iterative systems development using the DSDM Atern methodology
    • Other agile development methodologies (The Unified Process (UP), SCRUM, eXtreme Programming)
    • Models of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
    • Interpretation and principles of:
      • Use case diagram
      • Use case description
      • Class diagram
      • State machine diagram
    • Validating models using a CRUD matrix
  6. Systems investigation
    • Fact finding approaches:
      • Workshops
      • Interviewing
      • Questionnaires
      • Scenario analysis, storyboarding & hot-housing
      • Model office & focus groups
      • Other approaches
    • Functional requirements definition
    • Non-functional requirements definition
    • Documenting & prioritising requirements
    • Human aspects of systems investigation and introducing change
  7. Systems design, implementation and maintenance
    • Design principles and constraints (legal, ethical, financial)
    • Systems deployment and hand over
    • Post-implementation reviews
    • Different types of maintenance
    • Estimation and development planning
  8. Quality assurance
    • Definitions of software quality
    • The V model
    • Requirements-driven testing
    • Static testing: types of walkthrough and inspection
    • Post-project reviews
  9. CASE and CAST tools
    • Features of Computer-aided Software Engineering (CASE) and Computer-aided Software Testing tools (CAST)
    • Life-cycle coverage
    • Requirements traceability
    • Advantages and disadvantages

Systems Development Essentials with Agile

£ 1,225 VAT inc.