The Centre for Software Engineering is pleased to announce its T50 Programme. T50 provides training that is responsive to the current economic climate.

T50 courses are short, half-day events that provide state of the art training and knowledge transfer through tuition and exercises. Each of the courses is self-contained and can be attended individually. Alternatively, you can attend several courses within a subject area eg Testing, Agile Project Management and build up a more complete picture of that subject.

The initial T50 courses will be on the following subjects:

Testing

• The Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMI) – How to make your testing more Effective and Efficient
• Software Test Management
• Successful Peer Reviews
• Fundamentals of Software Testing
• Structural (White Box) Testing Techniques
• Specification (Black Box) Testing Techniques
• Incident Management – An effective Process

Quality - Process Improvement

• Understanding the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-Dev)
• Successfully Managing and Implementing your Process Improvement Initiative
• CMMI - Progressing through the Capability/Maturity Levels in the Model
• Performing Internal Quality Audits
• External Auditing of ISO9001 Quality Systems
• ISO 9001 – the Basics
• Implementing a Quality Management System
• Defining Processes – the Basics

Measurement and Analysis

• Setting up a Software Measurement Programme – An Introduction

Configuration Management

• Configuration Management – the Basics

Agile Project Management

• Overview of Agile Methods
• Agile Project Planning
• Agile Estimating

Project Management

• Project Planning – the Basics
• Software Estimating – the Basics
• Risk Management – the Basics
• PRINCE 2 Overview
• Programme Management – the Basics

Agile Development

• Refactoring
• Pattern Cultivation
• Agile Modelling
• DesignOOrama Tutorial – Getting inside the head of an Agile Developer
• Agile Enterprise Development

Innovation and R&D

• Improving the Success Rate of Market Research
• Organising the R&D Centre
• Introduction to Creative Thinking

Requirements Engineering

• Managing User Requirements

Further courses will be lanched in the near future. See www.cse.ie for more details.

The cost of attending a T50 course is €180 – the fee includes tea & coffee and a light lunch. FAS funding may also be available – see your FAS representative for further details.

For more information, contact us on (01) 700 5750, or cse@dcu.ie

These courses can also be run on-site. Contact us for futher details.

The Centre for Software Engineering approved Training Programmes and Trainers have been placed on the FAS/EI National Register of Trainers. The registration number for the Centre for Software Engineering is 901090 and the registration expiry date is 10/08/2009.