eLearning Archive: Software Engineering Economics for the Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) and IEEE Standards Bundle
This course is part of our eLearning Archive, which includes older courses that may not be current or as user-friendly as courses designed more recently.
The following course is in this bundle: Software Engineering Economics. This course is part of a series of eLearning courses designed to help you prepare for the examination to become a Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) or to learn more about specific software engineering topics. Courses in this series address one or more of the fifteen Knowledge Areas that comprise the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge - or SWEBOK, upon which the Certification Exam is based. This course is intended to assess your understanding of software requirements through inline quizzes and feedback. The CSDA credential is intended for graduating software engineers and entry-level software professionals and serves to bridge the gap between your educational experience and real-world work requirements. Software Engineering Economics reviews technical decision-making with the business goals of the organization in mind. In this course you will review basic concepts including the Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return (MARR), future and present value, and net present value. Additional content areas include taxes, for and not-for-profit decision making, software project estimation, risk management, techniques for estimating uncertainty and multiple attribute decisions The following IEEE standards are included in this package: IEEE 610.12-1990 (Replaced by IEEE/ISO/IEC 24765-2010) Systems and software engineering -- Vocabulary.
What you will learn:
- Review software engineering economics cundamentals
- Examine for-profit and not-for-profit decision making
- Present economy and software engineering
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Who should attend: Electrical engineer, Design engineer, Product engineer, Lead engineer, Project engineer, Manufacturing engineer
Instructor
Linda Shafer
Linda Shafer began has held positions in academia and industry, including IBM, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Motorola and The University of Texas at Austin, where she was director of the Software Quality Institute. She holds a BA from the University of Texas and an MBA from the University of New Mexico. She co-founded the Software Project Management Certification Program at UT and was one of three principle instructors. Ms. Shafer has co-authored four textbooks and published 25 articles.
Publication Year: 2013
ISBN: 1-4673-3196-1