BCS-ISEB Systems Development Essentials - Weekend

Anyone involved in systems development, including new entrants to IT, anyone moving into an analysis role, systems analysts who want to consolidate their existing skills and user staff involved in an IT project.

The course encourages a user-centred approach which focuses on providing quality assured solutions which meet the needs of the business.

This practical course provides valuable experience in investigation, requirements gathering, modelling and specification analysis of information, quality assurance and other essential systems analysis techniques.

This is an intensive 2 day course requiring pre-reading and long days (approx 9 hours).

To provide the skills and techniques required to be an effective and professional systems analyst.

Successful delegates will be able to:

• Understand the phases of system development within traditional, iterative, and agile development projects
• Investigate a system and analyse the results
• Make effective use of different methods of interpersonal communication
• Plan and conduct searching and effective interviews
• Interpret business requirements and produce system requirements
• Quality assure the requirements documentation and develop test cases
• Develop, interpret and quality assure process, data and event models of requirements
• Plan for successful system implementation
• Assess the impact of Commercial Off The Shelf Packages on their development approach

• The role of the system analyst and designer
• Systems architecture
• Development approaches
• Systems development lifecycles
• Methodologies
• Systems investigation
• Systems design, implementation & maintenance
• Quality assurance
• CASE tools