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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
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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
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Business analysis
- Business analysis defined
- Business analysis in the systems development lifecycle
- Outcomes from business analysis
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Requirements engineering
- Introduction to requirements engineering and its key areas
- Requirements elicitation techniques
- Types of requirements
- Prioritising requirements
- Managing requirements
- Analysing and validating requirements
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Implementation and changeover
- File and data creation
- Supporting documentation
- Training
- System implementation
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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
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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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