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Professional competency

and life-long learning


Continuing Professional Development
(CPD)
 Requires all professionals to take personal responsibility for the process
of updating their own ability to understand the range of topics relevant
to their area of competence
 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the systematic
maintenance, improvement and broadening of relevant knowledge and
skills, and the development of these qualities necessary for the
successful carrying out of professional duties throughout a software
engineer or information technology professional's career.
 In this it is aimed at enhancing individual worth and thus corporate
performance
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD)
 Continuing Professional Development is an ongoing necessity in the ever
changing technological world in which we live.

 The practicing professional software engineers and information


technology professionals should aim to remain competent throughout
their working careers so that they can properly carry out their various
duties.

 To this end software engineers and information technology professionals


need to take opportunities to update their depth and breadth of
knowledge and expertise and to develop those personal qualities
required to fulfil their roles in industry and in society.
CPD

 CPD covers matters of direct technical relevance as well as broader


studies also of importance to the professionals in the furtherance of
their careers such as communication, environmental matters, financial
management, leadership skills, legal aspects, marketing, occupational
safety and health and professional ethics.
Demand for CPD

 The community has higher dependence on software engineering and


information technology professionals.

 Many large scale information technology infrastructure have failed


badly by any standard Rapid change in technologies – (Nokia)

 Traditionally technical skills of software engineering and information


technology professionals become outdated soon, software engineering
and information technology professionals are not good at inter-personal
communications An important drive to Professionalism and Ethics
Importance of CPD Competence
Emphasis on learning
 Increased customer expectations

 Litigation

 Standards

 Quality management

 Competitiveness
 Professional development has assumed great importance in all sectors
of education over the last few years. Focus on higher standards and
improving quality.

 Demands of increasing accountability mean that every professionals


have an unprecedented need for ongoing professional development.

 Each sector has standards or ‘competences’ for the assessment of


performance.
Individual’s Perspective

 FROM - Expectation of a “job for life”


 Develop a single specialist skill
 Vertical promotion
 “Keep your head down”
 Single employer (for entire career)
 Careers planned Develop a skill during an initial training period
 TO - Reality “no job is safe”
 Multiple skills required
 Horizontal / lateral movement
 “Innovative and take risks”
 Multiple employers (portfolio of careers)
 Plan your own career Continuous lifelong learning
Employer’s Perspective

 Develop CPD policy of objectives that reflect business needs

 Document and record CPD activity

 Evaluate CPD

 Pay attention to the effective management of the learning environment


at work

 Measure the cost of professional development


CPD Costs (The Individual)

 Costs of undertaking CPD


 Time – personal and professional
 Commitment - personal and professional
 Costs of NOT undertaking CPD
 Opportunity costs lost
 Potential loss of professional standing Inability to compete with fellow
members of the professional body

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