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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
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Systems architecture
- Enterprise, systems and infrastructure levels of architecture
- Inputs at an enterprise level
- Inputs at system and infrastructure level
- Model Driven Architecture
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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
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Systems development lifecycles
- Waterfall model
- V model
- Incremental model
- Spiral (evolutionary) model
- Advantages and disadvantages of each approach
- Selection of an appropriate development approach
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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
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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
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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
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Quality assurance
- Definitions of software quality
- The V model
- Requirements-driven testing
- Static testing: types of walkthrough and inspection
- Post-project reviews
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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
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