Written primarily for undergraduates Systems Analysis & Design courses in CIS and MIS programs. It is designed for courses seeking a streamlined approach to the course due to course duration, lab assignments, or special projects.
This text is a briefer version (over 200 pages less) of the authors successful Modern Systems Analysis and Design text.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Foundations for Systems Development
Ch 1: The Systems Development Environment
Ch 2: Managing the Information Systems Project
Part II: Systems Planning and Selection
Ch 3: Systems Planning and Selection
Part III: Systems Analysis
Ch 4: Determining System Requirements
Ch 5: Structuring System Requirements: Process Modeling
Ch 6: Structuring System Requirements: Conceptual Data Modeling
Ch 7: Selecting the Best Alternative Design Strategy
Part IV: Systems Design
Ch 8: Designing the Human Interface
Ch 9: Designing Databases
Part V: Systems Implementation and Operation Ch 10: Systems Implementation and Operation
Appendix A: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Appendix B: Agile Methodologies
Glossary of Acronyms
Glossary of Terms
Index