Price
Course fee - Member: £956.25 + VAT
Course fee - non-Member: £1125 + VAT
Exam fee: £100 (exam is optional)
Includes lunch and course materials

In-company only, please call 0161 242 2121 for details.

Overview
This course focuses on systems investigations and quality assurance since these underpin systems development. Delegates are shown how systems development work is organised and the course distinguishes between generic lifecycle types, methods and approaches

Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Identify the tasks and disciplines required for systems development and implementation
• Investigate a system
• Interpret business requirements and produce systems requirements
• Quality assure the systems requirements documentation
• Derive test cases for the requirements
• Describe the commonly-used development lifecycles
• Describe in details one methodology that embraces one or more of these lifecycles
• Describe the structure and activities of this methodology
• Describe, interpret and quality assure the key models that the selected methodology uses for defining the process, static and event perspectives of the systemv
• Make effective use of different methods of interpersonal communications
• Quality assure the systems requirement documentation
• Identify different architecture for systems development solution
• Conduct a systems review
• Explain how CASE tools might be used to support the method

Professional Qualification
This course is one of an integrated set of courses leading to the widely respected British Computer Society Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB) Diploma in Systems Development.

Optional Examination
An optional examination can be taken at the end of the course. The examination consists of 15 minutes reading time followed by a one-hour 'open book' written examination based upon a business scenario. The examination is charged for separately. Successful candidates are awarded the ISEB Certificate in Systems Development Essentials

Syllabus Overview

The role of the systems analyst and designer

• Identify the actors / roles & responsibilities within systems development and implementation ( e.g. Designers, developers, testers, technical architects and others)
• Characteristics of the systems analyst /designer

Systems Architecture

• Different levels of architecture (Enterprise, Systems, Infrastructure,Network, databases)
• Inputs at Enterprise Level
• Inputs at Systems and Infrastructure level
• Impacts of design considerations

Development approaches

• Component based
• Evolutionary/iterative/agile
• Bespoke development
• Software package solutions
• Other appropriate approaches

Systems Development Lifecycles

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

Methodologies

• Structure and content of a chosen and representative method
• Description and interpretation of three representative models from the method showing:
• Process perspective
• Data perspective
• Event perspective
• Roles within the chosen method
• Products within the chosen method

Systems Investigation

• Fact finding approaches:
• Workshops
• Prototyping
• Interviewing
• Questionnaires (for usability or package selection)
• Scenario analysis
• Other approaches

• Functional requirements definition
• Non-functional requirements definition
• Documenting system requirements


• Human aspects of systems investigation and introducing change

Systems Design, Implementation & Maintenance

• Aspects of the production environment
• Design principles and 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

This is the revised syllabus for the ISEB Certificate in Systems Development Essentials module which can lead to the Diploma in Systems Development