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A Competency and SkillsFramework for the Assessmentof Software Engineering in theRoyal Air ForceDavid GillJanuary 2005A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of therequirements for the degree of Master of Sciencein Software EngineeringKellogg CollegeUniversity of Oxford British Crown Copyright 2005iAbstractThe idea for this dissertation was borne out of a study into military aviation designsupport services that made numerous recommendations, one of which was that a fullreview of software maintenance core competencies should be undertaken. However,what I initially thought would be a simple enough task soon revealed itself to bequite a complex and labour-intensive order to conduct a review of corecompetencies, I first had to revisit the acceptedacademic definitions of Software Engineering (SE), dissecting and examining themin the context of military usage. From this work, I was able to arrive at a newdefinition that I subsequently used to create a SE Activity Model that encompassedboth the development and support then developed a strategy for the creation of a SE Competency and Skills (C&S)Assessment Framework , and subsequently created the Framework itself.

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