Job Cluster: Software Development

This website provides skill and educational standards documents created by the IT Skills Standards 2020 and Beyond (ITSS 2020) project. This project's "mission is to create a contemporary and future-facing set of IT Skill Standards for the most critical IT job clusters, led by employer thought leaders and subject matter experts (SMEs) nationally." These skill standards are intended to "help widen the pipeline of workforce-ready IT workers through a model curriculum..."

This webpage includes four documents about the software development job cluster. The first document covers tasks, knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) for software developers. The next document places a list of student learning outcomes in the context of these KSAs. The third document explores employability skills, which range from oral communication to teamwork. The final document lists job tasks and their key performance indicators for analysis and design, programming, testing, and implementation.