The tutorial covers the basic concepts of software engineering: the first chapter discusses the basic concepts, history and terminology of software engineering; in the second chapter - standards and life cycle models of the software product, a typical role model of the software project team; The main content of the third chapter is an overview of the visual modeling tools used in structural analysis and system design; the fourth chapter contains an introduction to the UML language, considered as an object-oriented tool for graphic modeling and documentation of a software project; the final chapter of the manual is a project workshop containing practical tasks and examples of the development of UML models at various stages of the training program project.