BCS Practitioner Certificate in Systems Development Essentials

Explore generic lifecycle types, methods and approaches and the systems investigation and quality assurance that underpins the development.

Identify the tasks and disciplines required for systems development and the implementation of the development
Describe the relationship between systems development and the wider term solution development
Interpret the business requirements and produce systems requirements
Describe the commonly used development lifecycles defined in the syllabus
Select a particular development lifecycle based on specific characteristics
Describe in detail one method that embraces one (or more) of these generic lifecycles
Describe the structure, activities and deliverables of this method
Identify the key roles and responsibilities within the chosen method and describe how these can be used to form teams
Describe, interpret and quality assure the key models that the selected method uses for defining the process, static and event processes of the system
Explain the differences between logical and physical models
Make effective use of different methods of interpersonal communications
Quality assure the systems requirements documentation and models
Identify different architectures for systems development solutions
Conduct a quality review
Explain how CASE, CAST and Application Management tools might be used to support the chosen method