BCS Practitioner Certificate in Systems Development Essentials

• 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

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