The course focuses on Software Engineering activities that involve especiall y managers in the IT field: Requirements Elicitation and Specification , Software Quality Assurance, use of metrics for evaluation and prediction of software product and development process quality. During the lectures are analyzed the quality assurance activities in a software development process, software quality standards and models, verification and validation in softwa re processes, different types of software metrics. In order to familiarize students with software development in a methodological and systematic framework supported by a set of software engineering tools, the course presents the RUP process framework: RUP and “best practices”, iterative development in RUP, disciplines – Business Modeling, Requirements, Analysis and Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment, Configuration and Change Management, Project Management.