Overview: This text will be the first to present an object-oriented methodology from the outset for beginning Systems Analysis and Design students. It is the first book to introduce object-oriented methods without relying on classical methods to introduce key concepts or without requiring students to know Java or C++. It will presume no knowledge whatsoever about process modeling or data modeling. The widely used UML notation (unified modeling language) will be used throughout the book for all diagrams and model renderings. The key benefit to this approach is that it makes the course easier to teach and learn since many students come to this course with limited backgrounds having only taken one introductory MIS course. Also, this approach is appealing because object-oriented methodology is widely used in industry.

Part One: Introduction to UML and the Unified Process

Chapter 1. Introduction to Information Systems

Chapter 2. How Information Systems are Developed

Chapter 3. The Object-Oriented Paradigm, UML, and the Unified Process

Part Two: UML and the Unified Process

Chapter 4. The Requirements Workflow I

Chapter 5. The Requirements Workflow II

Chapter 6. The Object-Oriented Analysis Workflow. I

Chapter 7. The Object-Oriented Analysis Workflow. II

Chapter 8. The Object-Oriented Design Workflow

Chapter 9. The Workflows and Phases of the Unified Process

Chapter 10. More on UML

Part Three: MAJOR TOPICS IN SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

Chapter 11. CASE

Chapter 12. Teams

Chapter 13. Testing

Chapter 14. Management Issues

Chapter 15. Planning and Estimating

Chapter 16. Maintenance

Chapter 17. User-Interface Design

Chapter 18. Web-Based Information Systems

Chapter 19. Introduction to Database Management Systems

Chapter 20 Technical Topics

Appendix A. Term Project: Chocoholics Anonymous

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