ALM Training Modules 
 

 • modelling business processes

 • activities and sequence flow

 • gateways for logic

 • types of activities and subprocesses

 • gateway types and parallel logic

 • pools and lanes for responsibility

 • message flows

 • intermediate events and event types

 • data objects

 • BPEL

 • DSDM principles

 • when to use DSDM

 • DSDM lifecycle

 • feasibility and business study phase

 • functional model iterations

 • design and build iterations

 • implementation

 • project management

 • team structures

 • involving users

 • JAD workshops

 • why manage requirements?

 • definition of quality

 • identify stakeholder needs

 • problem definition

 • requirements management challenges

 • gathering requirements

 • use case models

 • 1-10-100 rule

 • traceability

 • control scope creep

 • change control process

 • identify and classify risks

 • typical software development risks

 • assess risk impact and probability

 • calculate risk exposure

 • assign risk priority

 • develop contingency plans

 • add contingency to estimates

 • project risk profiles

 • schedule to reduce risk

 • interviews

 • workshops

 • observation

 • prototyping

 • scenario analysis

 • documentation analysis

 • questionnaires and surveys

 • special purpose records

 • what’s the problem?

 • setting and meeting deadlines

 • impact of inaccurate estimates

 • key role of project managers

 • the devil’s triangle and pyramid

 • when to estimate

 • a scientific approach

 • traditional estimating approaches

 • UML estimation

 • identify project scope

 • productivity metrics

 • calculating an estimate

 • qualify the scope

 • apply an activity profile

 • automate estimating

 • architectural views

 • business process modelling

 • n-tier layered logical architecture

 • interface and control objects

 • persistence and wrapper objects

 • physical architecture

 • prerequisites for successful projects

 • multi-level plans

 • iterative processes

 • timeboxing

 • the ‘Mythical Man-Month’

 • optimism versus caution

 • user involvement

 • iteration review

 • planning for deployment

 • software process improvement

 • what is CBD?

 • drivers for CBD

 • designing component-based systems

 • what makes a good component

 • wrapping legacy systems

 • distributed communications

 • component marketplace

 • logical component architecture

 • physical component architecture

 • deployment

 • conditions for success

 • project roles

 • resource skill profile

 • acquiring skills

 • team structure

 • building a team

 • management style

 • motivation

 • communication

 • user involvement

 • a centre of excellence

 • what is a development process?

 • waterfall development

 • iterative and incremental development

 • development processes

 • when to use prototypes

 • project lifecycle

 • process, organisation and architecture

 • impact on organisation

 • planning for re-use

 • reducing risk

 • CASE tools

 • management tools

 • programming languages

 • integrated development environments

 • use case driven, architecture centric development

 • iterative and incremental process

 • phases and iterations

 • inception phase

 • elaboration phase

 • construction phase

 • transition phase

 • process workflows