Core software engineering competencies

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Managing requirements through the entire delivery and operational life cycle.

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Designing systems to meet specified requirements and agreed systems architectures.

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Specifying and designing software to meet defined requirements by following agreed design standards and principles.

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Developing software components to deliver value to stakeholders.

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Designing and developing reliable real-time software typically within embedded systems.

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Ensuring methods and tools are adopted and used effectively throughout the organisation.

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Planning, identifying, controlling, accounting for and auditing of configuration items (CIs) and their interrelationships.

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Investigating products, systems and services to assess behaviour and whether this meets specified or unspecified requirements and characteristics.

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Planning, implementing and controlling activities to integrate system elements, subsystems and interfaces to create operational systems, products or services.

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Applying the processes, systems and functions required to make new and changed services and features available for use.

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Assuring, through ongoing and periodic assessments and reviews, that the organisation’s quality objectives are being met.

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Developing and operating a measurement capability to support agreed organisational information needs.

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Applying appropriate methods to assure safety during all life cycle phases of safety-related systems developments.

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Delivering management, technical and administrative services to support and maintain live applications.