Systems Development Essentials with Agile

Course

In London

£ 1,195 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Days

This 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 diplomas in Systems Development and is also an optional certificate in the ISEB diploma in Business Analysis. Suitable for: Systems analysts and system developers. Business analysts. Business executives and accountants wishing to broaden their knowledge.

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London
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About this course

There are no pre-requisites for attendance on this course.

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Course programme

Systems Development Essentials with Agile

Course Content

Roles in systems development

  • The purposes, objectives and tasks of systems development
  • Roles and actors in systems development
  • Technical and interpersonal skills of the analysts
  • The emergence of skills frameworks (SFIA+)
  • The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

Systems architecture

  • Enterprise, systems and infrastructure levels of architecture
  • The Zachman framework
  • Inputs at an enterprise level
  • Inputs at system and infrastructure level
  • Components of an EAP methodology

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

Systems development lifecycles

  • Waterfall model
  • V model
  • Incremental model
  • Spiral model
  • Advantages and disadvantages of each approach
  • Selection of an appropriate approach

Methodologies

  • Traditional and structured approaches
  • Agile Development/Rapid Application Development/eXtreme Programming
  • The Unified Process (UP) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
  • Models of the UML
  • Interpretation of:

Use case diagram, Use case description, Class diagram, Sequence diagram

  • Phrases of the Unifed Process
  • Workflows of the Unified Process

Systems investigation

  • Fact finding approaches:

Workshops, Prototyping, Interviewing, Questionnaires, Scenario analysis, Other approaches

  • Functional requirements definition
  • Non-functional requirements definition
  • Documenting requirements
  • Human aspects of the systems investigation and introducing change

Systems design, implementation and maintenance

  • Aspects of the production environment
  • Design principles and constraints (legal, ethical, financial)
  • Sign off and hand over
  • Post-implementation reviews
  • Different types of maintenance

Quality assurance

  • Definitions of software quality
  • The V model
  • Requirements- driven testing
  • Static testing: types of walkthrough and inspection
  • Post- project reviews
  • Service Level Agreements

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

Additional information

Payment options: Examination Fee £120 + VAT
Students per class: 12

Systems Development Essentials with Agile

£ 1,195 + VAT