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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP56 · Level 6

Development Team Lead

Target occupation: lead developer, technical team manager.

Target occupation
lead developer, technical team manager
Level
6 — Manager and professional
Duration
12 months
Taught hours
800 h
Credits
80

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Architecture and software quality

    210 hours

    Architectural choices, technical debt, standards, review, testing, application security

  2. Steering delivery

    200 hours

    Cadence, estimation, scope commitment, continuous integration, release

  3. Technical leadership

    190 hours

    Allocation, skills growth, constructive review, technical hiring

  4. Business relations and trade-offs

    150 hours

    Translating needs, cost-time-quality trade-offs, a reasoned refusal

  5. Managerial conduct

    50 hours

    Protecting the team, reporting, deciding on incomplete information

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Development Team Lead — IHETC