ICT50718 Diploma of Software Development

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for ICT50718 ended on 19 July 2020 — 6 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 21 July 2021 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
ICT — Information and Communications Technology
Currency period ends
19 July 2020
Latest release
Release 1 · 30 January 2019
Supersedes
ICT50715
Superseded by
ICT50120 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. ICT50718Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Software Development
  2. not equivalent
  3. ICT50120Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Information Technology
  4. not equivalent
  5. ICT50220CurrentDiploma of Information Technology

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • ICT50715ICT50718equivalent29 January 2019

    Updated due to changes to core units of competency

  • ICT50718ICT50120not equivalent20 July 2020

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is ICT50718 on your scope?

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What ICT50718 is made of

training.gov.au lists 33 units for ICT50718: 10 core and 23 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 10 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
ICTICT418Contribute to copyright, ethics and privacy in an ICT environmentnot current
ICTPRG418Apply intermediate programming skills in another languagenot current
ICTPRG502Manage a project using software management toolsnot current
ICTPRG503Debug and monitor applicationsnot current
ICTPRG504Deploy an application to a production environmentnot current
ICTPRG520Validate an application design against specificationsnot current
ICTPRG523Apply advanced programming skills in another languagenot current
ICTPRG527Apply intermediate object-oriented language skillsnot current
ICTPRG529Apply testing techniques for software developmentnot current
ICTPRG532Apply advanced object-oriented language skillscurrent

Elective units 23 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
ICTICT403Apply software development methodologiesnot current
ICTICT503Validate quality and completeness of system design specificationsnot current
ICTICT509Gather data to identify business requirementsnot current
ICTICT514Identify and manage the implementation of current industry specific technologiesnot current
ICTICT517Match ICT needs with the strategic direction of the organisationcurrent
ICTNWK514Model preferred system solutionsnot current
ICTPMG501Manage ICT projectsnot current
ICTPRG505Build advanced user interfacenot current
ICTPRG506Design application architecturenot current
ICTPRG507Implement security for applicationsnot current
ICTPRG508Create mashupsnot current
ICTPRG509Build using rapid application developmentnot current
ICTPRG510Maintain custom softwarenot current
ICTPRG512Prepare for the build phase of an ICT systemnot current
ICTPRG513Coordinate the build phase of an ICT systemnot current
ICTPRG515Review developed softwarenot current
ICTPRG531Prepare for application development using current methodscurrent
ICTPRG601Develop advanced mobile multi-touch applicationsnot current
ICTPRG604Create cloud computing servicesnot current
ICTSAD501Model data objectscurrent
ICTSAD502Model data processescurrent
ICTSAD506Produce a feasibility reportnot current
ICTSAS502Establish and maintain client user liaisoncurrent

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

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