University of Minnesota
Software Development Lifecycle Specialization
University of Minnesota

Software Development Lifecycle Specialization

Launch Your Career in Software Development. Master techniques and best practices for traditional and agile software project management.

Kevin Wendt
Praveen Mittal

Instructors: Kevin Wendt

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4.7

(2,366 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Critically analyze software engineering development processes from our four selected development philosophies (traditional, secure, agile, and lean)

  • Describe the trade-offs among the philosophies with respect to environmental, organizational, and product constraints

  • Discuss the workings of exemplary processes within each of the given philosophies

  • Perform activities within each of the four aforementioned philosophies and explain how they satisfy the principles of the given philosophy

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Specialization - 4 course series

Software Development Processes and Methodologies

Course 120 hours4.7 (2,060 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Software Development Methodologies
Category: Requirements Analysis
Category: Agile Software Development
Category: Software Development Life Cycle
Category: Waterfall Methodology
Category: Scrum (Software Development)
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Process Driven Development
Category: Software Engineering
Category: Software Development
Category: Systems Development
Category: Maintainability
Category: Development Testing
Category: Software Testing
Category: Release Management

Agile Software Development

Course 211 hours4.7 (7,359 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Agile Software Development
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Sprint Retrospectives
Category: User Story
Category: Sprint Planning
Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)
Category: Scrum (Software Development)
Category: Continuous Integration
Category: Agile Project Management
Category: Release Management
Category: Backlogs
Category: Software Development Methodologies

Lean Software Development

Course 39 hours4.6 (415 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Design Thinking
Category: Lean Methodologies
Category: Innovation
Category: Waste Minimization
Category: Process Improvement
Category: Kanban Principles
Category: Product Testing
Category: Software Development
Category: Software Development Methodologies
Category: Continuous Improvement Process
Category: Business Workflow Analysis
Category: Prototyping
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Lean Manufacturing
Category: Process Mapping
Category: Usability Testing
Category: Product Development
Category: Agile Software Development

Engineering Practices for Building Quality Software

Course 417 hours4.5 (417 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • You will learn how to quantiatively measure design quality attributes.

  • You will establish feasible and testable scenarios for evaluating quality attributes in software architecture.

  • You will develop skills to ensure quality in developing code beyond correct functionality alone.

  • You will understand quality approaches to post-development stages of the lifecycle.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Continuous Integration
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Version Control
Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)
Category: CI/CD
Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: Application Security
Category: Software Quality (SQA/SQC)
Category: Software Technical Review
Category: Software Documentation
Category: Software Engineering
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Code Review
Category: Quality Assurance
Category: Software Development Tools
Category: Maintainability

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Kevin Wendt
University of Minnesota
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