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Fit
No prerequisites
You can start right away. Helpful: hands-on experience maintaining and evolving existing systems, working with the source code of medium to large systems, some experience with refactorings and code metrics.
Consider instead ARCEVAL Runs evaluation procedures such as ATAM, CBAM and DCAR across 570 minutes and stops at the findings, without planning what they cost or how they get implemented.
Curriculum
Curriculum 1.6.1 splits IMPROVE into six parts across 1080 teaching minutes. It starts at technical debt, runs through current-state analysis and economic assessment to long-term planning and the rebuild techniques themselves, and closes on a real example system. The official document is published in English only.
The first part settles what the rest of the training is talking about.
This part keeps finding problems strictly apart from solving them.
Here every finding gets a price and every solution a counter-value.
Individual measures become a strategy spanning several releases.
At 360 minutes this is the largest part of the curriculum: the work itself.
To close, one real system runs through the whole cycle once.
Outcome
You classify technical debt and separate it from new functional requirements.
You establish the current state from stakeholder interviews, documentation and runtime measurements.
You read structural weaknesses out of metrics for coupling, complexity and cohesion.
You put a figure on problems and solutions in CAPEX, OPEX and return on investment.
You estimate effort as an interval with best, average and worst case instead of a single figure.
You group individual findings into an improvement strategy spanning several releases.
You retire legacy systems through application strangling and encapsulate risks as a black box.
You reduce coupling through refactoring, dependency injection, adapters and gateways.
30 of 70 points toward CPSA-A admission
The tecnovy certificate of participation records your attendance of the IMPROVE training, not a passed examination.
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Why tecnovy
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We are an officially accredited Training Provider of the International Software Architecture Qualification Board.
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Get your certificate of participation and, if you have one, add your exam certificate from E-Learning. Fully automated, beautifully designed. Just for you, only at tecnovy.
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Promised: no PowerPoint marathon. We work in groups, tie theory to practice, and you get real project examples from our experienced trainers plus the exchange with like-minded people.
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You are welcome to attend the training online again within a year as a refresher.
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Your instructors are not just trainers, but the authors of the preparatory literature for the iSAQB CPSA-F certification exam and at the same time an active member of the iSAQB Foundation group.
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If you are not able to attend the course, you can rebook your training free of charge up to one week before the start of the training.
Experiences
I took the iSAQB IMPROVE course because in most larger companies there is not only new development; the greater part of the software already exists. On top of that, the course was taught by Dr. Gernot Starke, a leading authority in the field. The course itself was very interesting, instructive and a long way from death by PowerPoint
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