Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is the process of developing software through planning, requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. This course focuses on the project planning and analysis/design phases of SDLC, and you will learn about different architectural patterns and design patterns to solve common problems in software design. It covers project planning, scheduling, and cost estimating, which are the principal tasks of software project managers.
Software Engineering: Software Design and Project Management
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Software Engineering: Software Design and Project Management
This course is part of Software Engineering Specialization
Instructor: Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung
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2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
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- Project Planning
- Software Architecture
- Software Quality Assurance
- Project Management
- Systems Analysis
- Software Design Patterns
- Quality Assurance
- Systems Architecture
- Software Engineering
- Object Oriented Design
- Systems Design
- Software Design
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Diagram Design
- Software Quality (SQA/SQC)
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Reviewed on Nov 28, 2022
it was a great experience to take this course. I gained and polished more upgradable skills from this course. all the contents are up-to-dated and flexible. highly recommended
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Reviewed on Sep 7, 2023
This specialisation course in software engineering from Hong Kong University was the best of all time amongst other courses. It was a great time learning from this course!
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Reviewed on Jun 30, 2025
This course was highly beneficial in improving knowledge regarding software Engineering concepts
