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IT Fundamentals for Business Professionals: Software development

Working with Information Technology (IT) without the necessary background? Learn the fundamentals of software development

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Created by: Tanja Vos

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Course Description

This course is one of the 5 courses of an introductory business information systems series, designed to introduce you to the amazing world of Information Technology.
The series of courses is designed so that a professional in a field outside the information technologies (financial, administrative or managerial) acquires the basic knowledge in Information Technology to be able to interact more profitably with the computer and telecommunications specialists of your company or other corporations with which you are related, being able to specify requirements, evaluate workloads and monitor results in a much more effective way.
The syllabus of the series is based on the CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications exam.
In this course, you learn the basics of software project management, reviewing basic project management concepts and roles, system development lifecycle, tools and methods used in software development, standards. used in the development and the design of the user interface of a computer system.
By completing the series of 5 courses, you will be prepared to interact effectively with specialists in the Information Technology sector (and pass the CLEP ISCA exam if you wish).

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Time: 3 Weeks - 5-6 hours per week

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Tanja Vos

Dra. Tanja Vos is an associate professor at the Computation and Information Systems Department (DSIC) of the Universitat Politcnica de Valncia (Spain), and carries out her research at the Center for Software Production Methods (ProS) where she leads the Software Testing & Quality (STaQ) group. She has been teaching for more than 20 years and has been involved in many research projects on software testing in an industrial setting. She has successfully coordinated various EU-funded project related to software development. She is also involved in various Erasmus and Leonardo initiatives that try to help business understand academia an vice versa. La dra. Tanja Vos es profesora contratada doctor en el Departamento de Sistemas Informticos y Computacin de la Universitat Politcnica de Valncia (Espaa) y desarrolla su investigacin en el Centro de Investigacin en Mtodos de Produccin de Software (ProS) donde dirige el grupo de Calidad y Pruebas de Software (STaQ). Lleva enseando ms de 20 aos y ha participado en muchos proyectos de investigacin de prueba de software en entornos industriales. Ha coordinado con xito varios proyectos financiados por la Unin Europea relacionados con el desarrollo de software. Tambin ha participado en varias iniciativas Erasmus y Leonardo centradas en mejorar las relaciones y el entendimiento entre la Universidad y las empresas.