Fundamentals of SDLC

Course Code: 1906

$1495

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Overview

This course helps participants understand the different roles that need to come together in order to create successful applications, and identify which tools and techniques to use in any particular situation. The course gives participants the knowledge required to choose between different methods, tools and artifacts to quickly and efficiently take the SDLC project from concept to working implementation.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 3 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 3 days

What You'll learn

Identify, evaluate and document the many stakeholders of a project
Distinguish between the different types and levels of software testing
Understand the reason for the various artifacts and the key features of each
Write effective user stories that can be used to identify requirements in an Agile project
Learn how the different life cycle models combine to create an SDLC implementation
Choose the proper project management methodology for your project
Understand the significance and usage of different estimating
Understand the significance of the Agile Manifesto and its relationship to the twelve (12) principles of Agile
Use Earned Value Project Management to assess budget and schedule compliance
Be able to use the Triple Constraints Triangle as a tool to help others understand the relationship of time, cost, and scope in any project

Outline

Module 1: Overview of the System Development Life Cycle

Overview of a project
- What do you want to build?
- Who is going to build it?
- From product to project scope
- The SDLC
The life cycles
- Business analysis life cycle
- Project management life cycle
- Systems development life cycle

Module 2: Overview of SDLC

What is it?
History
Overview
Typical delivery process

Module 3: Overview of business analysis

IIBA
- BABOK
Requirements
- Project vs. product requirements
- Characteristics
System
Stakeholder
Levels of requirements
- Business
- Stakeholder
- Solution

Module 4: Overview of project management

Project definition
Generic project life cycle
Project management life cycle
Documentation

Module 5: Project management methodologies compatible with the SDLC

The development spectrum
- Waterfall
- Iterative
- Agile

Module 6: Project initiation

Enterprise analysis
Project request/business case
- Project selection
Deliverables
Stakeholder register
- Stakeholder analysis
Risk register
- Risk analysis
Product vision vs. Project vision
Project charter
Objectives, constraints, choices
- Triple constraints triangle

Module 7: Project planning – The project management plan

Subsidiary management plans
Baselines
- Scope
- Schedule
- Cost
Elaborating requirements
- Models – flow, context, swim lanes, process flow
Scope baseline
- Project scope statement
- Work breakdown structure/work packages
Activity definition
Dependency determination
Estimating
- Analogous
- Parametric
- 3 – point
Schedule baseline
- Critical path method
Important subsidiary management plans
- Test plan
  
  Purpose
  
  Considerations
  
  Test budgeting
  
  Contents
- Human resources
  
  Parts
  
  Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
  
  RACI

Module 8: Communications

Components

Module 9: Risk

Qualitative risk analysis

Module 10: Performing the work (project execution)

Developers and testers
Perform software testing
Requirements traceability matrix
Levels of testing
Other SDLC issue
- Training
- Rollout

Module 11: Closing the project

Product acceptance
Project closing
- Lessons learned
- Project sign-off
- Transfer

Module 12: Agile overview

Why Agile?
The triple constraints in Agile
Agile approach to planning
Agile manifesto
- Agile principles
Agile methodologies
- Scrum process
- XP
Agile planning
- Levels
- User stories
- Release planning
- Product backlog
- Sprint planning, story points and team velocity
- Daily scrum
- Sprint review
- Demo
- Sprint retrospective

Prerequisites

There are no mandatory prerequisites for this course. Completing the Project Management 101 – Fundamentals of Project Management course prior to taking up this course, would be beneficial for the participants.