Introduction
iTrain presents a six-day training program aims to provide software engineers/developers the necessary knowledge in process, tools and technologies to achieve increase in software productivity and quality. The two parts of the training is a disciplined approach to software development that encourages developers to have the knowledge to design and apply process, tools and technologies that work in their organizations.

The students learn to make mistakes, and importantly learn a number of techniques to better deliver software products in a situation when deadlines and requirement changes occur. About 50% of the classroom time is spent applying these techniques to design a software product.

Course Synopsis
Workshop I
This part of the class covers idea realization, specification and requirements analysis and software project planning. This class looks at software planning and a template to perform software project planning. A number of software estimation and planning techniques such as Wideband Delphi are discussed in details. From the process standpoint, an interactive process covering specification, design, implement, test and maintenance is presented, and quality control using design review method is emphasized. The class also looks at a template to perform specification and requirement analysis of a software tool. The class discusses Microsoft Team System and Rational Unified Process in software product specification and design.

The practical session in this class introduces the students to design a distributed and wireless-based software product on a desktop. The practical session gets the students involved in the design of a software process covering specification, design, implement, test and maintenance. The students will be asked to use either a Microsoft Team System and tools, or Rational Tools to design a software process. They will apply one of the software estimation techniques such as Wideband Delphi to perform the software estimation for the wireless software product on a desktop. The students will continue to use Rational Tools such as RequisitePro and Rational Rose to apply the model-driven software approach to software specification. Some of the students will use the Microsoft Team System to accomplish the software specification and requirements analysis.

The students will learn and apply the Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case and Sequence diagrams to specify software requirements. This class introduces a practical application of the UML diagrams and function-class decomposition (FCD) concept to requirements analysis, software architecture analysis and design, and software design and implementation for the wireless product. Based on the function-class decomposition concept, the UML diagrams for requirement analysis, and software architecture analysis and design are learnt in detail. The students will learn to use design review to review software specifications and requirements that are completed by other students. The final part of this part will reflect on the completed requirements and design documents to understand how the software architecture, tools and process practiced in the class help reduce risks when software changes occur.

Workshop II
This is a continuation from the workshop I looking into process, tools and technologies to accomplish software design, implementation and testing. The software process discusses an iterative approach to software using a Model-Driven, UML and function-class decomposition approach to software design. The presentation highlights some of the best or cutting-edge tools and technologies, such as auto-code generation, traceability matrix and practical ideas in complex software design based on real-world intensive experience in designing software for customers.

The practical session requires the user understands software requirements specification and software design document, and implement a wireless software product. The students will then perform a further implementation of the software requirements using a UML tool. The students will apply design patterns and function-class decomposition for the design of UML class diagrams, sequence diagrams, and component diagrams. The students are exposed to the technologies of auto-code generation using a UML tool.

The most important part of the experience is in the code inspection phase in which we simulate a large-scale requirements changes after a code inspection. The students will learn to cope with intensive requirements changes by applying design patterns, function-class decomposition, model-driven technologies and code inspection technique. The students will also learn how to apply iterative design process, the feature-driven and value-creation idea in Microsoft Team System and traceability matrix to better predict the time for the delivery of software products when pressured with deadlines, quality and time to market. Importantly, we will reflect how well the process, tools and software architecture techniques support software change requests and updates while exceeding customers� expectation on quality and deadlines. The question of whether we design and test what we put into requirements is answered in the class.

Instructors
	Dr. Chai Kok Soon is a pioneer and section manager for the embedded software group, Plexus Technology Group in Penang, Malaysia. He is leading a team of software engineers designing automotive, medical and networking products for US companies. Prior to joining Plexus, he worked at design centers at Agilent and Motorola. He was also involved in research projects sponsored by Airbus UK at the University of Warwick. He is a regular speaker at many conferences. He pioneers the function-class decomposition and UML for embedded software design and presented this approach at the Embedded Systems Conference in Silicon Valley. He obtained a perfect score of 6 out of 6 for the technical content of the presentation averaging from the feedbacks of the attendees. He holds a number of publications in international journal, IEEE conferences, Motorola Software, Systems and Simulation (S3) conference, and a US patent application. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Warwick, UK.
	Bikesh is co-founder of iTrain, a firm dedicated to delivering real world based training content to corporate and government agencies. Graduating from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) with his bachelors degree in computer science, he is currently working on his masters research with University of Malaya (UM) and University of Kyoto, Japan on Collaborative Team Development. Bikesh has the technical expertise in a vast variety of programming languages, development tools and software process models. He holds an MSF Practitioner along with an ITIL Foundations Certificate. With over 10 years of training and development experience in the IT industry, and being an early adopter of .Net, he is now conducting projects to promote secure coding and programming best practices among government agencies in Malaysia with collaborative efforts of Microsoft, HP and INTAN.

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