Emphasis on development of business application systems using
object-oriented and structured analysis tools and techniques
for describing processes, use cases, data structures, system
objects, file designs, input and output designs, and program
specifications. Includes a service-learning project with
requirements gathering, planning, and development of a
prototype for an internal/external client.
Athena Title
Systems Analysis and Design
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in MIST 4620E
Prerequisite
MIST 5740E or MIST 5740S with a minimum grade of C
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Understand the issues and management techniques involved in the planning, analysis and modeling, design, and implementation of information systems.
Understand the different options open to organizations seeking new information systems functionality (including
traditional systems analysis and design, rapid application development, packages, and web services) and the costs and benefits of each.
Understand how to view information systems as a way to support business needs, and as such, valuable only to the extent that they bring business value.
Understand how to apply these techniques and perspectives to a real-world project within which students use the skills and knowledge learned in the course.
Topical Outline
1. New system planning
System development life cycle and methodologies
Business value vs. technical accomplishment, business as processes, feasibility, workplan, staffing, identifying IS projects
Systems theory
Project management
Requirements determination, gathering information
2. Costs and benefits of different approaches to implementing new systems
Traditional systems analysis and design
End user computing
Rapid application development
Packages, enterprise systems
3. System analysis modeling
Modeling at the top level -- work flow analysis level, to support business process modeling at that level
Structured analysis versus object-oriented analysis
Functional scope: use cases and/or event tables
Structural modeling: class diagrams and/or entity-relationship diagrams
Behavioral modeling: sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, state chart diagrams
Data flow diagrams
4. System design
User interface design
Object persistence
System architecture
Class and method construction
5. Implementation
System construction issues
Implementation issues
