Get the core skills you need to actually dosystems analysis and design with this highly practical, hands-on approach to SAD using UML! Authors Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, and David Tegarden guide you through each part of the SAD process, with clear explanations of what it is and how to implement it, along with detailed examples and exercises that allow you to practice what you’ve learned.

Now updated to include UML Version 2.0 and revised, this Second Edition features a new chapter on the Unified Process, increased coverage of project management, and more examples.

Highlights

• Written in UML: The text takes a contemporary, object-oriented approach using UML.
• Focus on doing SAD: After presenting the how and what of each major technique, the text guides you through practice problems and then invites you to use the technique in a project.
• Rich examples of both success and failure: Concepts in Action boxes describe how real companies succeeded and failed in performing the activities in the chapters.
• Project approach: Each chapter focuses on a different step in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process. Topics are presented in the order in which they are encountered in a typical project.
• A running case: This case threaded throughout the text allows you to apply each concept you have learned.

• Offering a hands-on approach and copious helpful examples, this new edition clearly explains how to conduct systems analysis and design
• Includes updated and new case studies throughout that build upon the featured concepts and explain how these concepts are applied
• Discusses the latest software tools available in the field as well as the newest object-oriented concepts and techniques

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN.

Introduction.

The Systems Development Life Cycle.

Systems Development Methodologies.

Project Team Skills and Roles.

Summary.

PART ONE: PLANNING PHASE.

CHAPTER 2. PROJECT INITIATION.

Introduction.

Project Identification.

Feasibility Analysis.

Project Selection.

Summary.

CHAPTER 3. PROJECT MANAGEMENT.

Introduction.

Identifying Project Size.

Creating and Managing the Workplan.

Staffing the Project.

Coordinating Project Activities.

Applying in Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

PART TWO: ANALYSIS PHASE.

CHAPTER 4. REQUIREMENTS DETERMINATION.

Introduction.

Requirements Determination.

Requirements Analysis Techniques.

Requirements-Gathering Techniques.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 5. USE CASE ANALYSIS.

Introduction.

Use Cases.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 6. PROCESS MODELING.

Introduction.

Data Flow Diagrams.

Creating Data Flow Diagrams.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

Appendix A: Process Modeling at Custom MetalWorks.

CHAPTER 7. DATA MODELING.

Introduction.

The Entity Relationship Diagram.

Creating an Entity Relationship Diagram.

Validating and ERD.

Summary.

Appendix A: Data Modeling at Custom MetalWorks.

PART THREE: DESIGN PHASE.

CHAPTER 8. MOVING INTO DESIGN.

Introduction.

Transition from Requirements to Design.

System Acquisition Strategies.

Influence on Acquisition Strategy.

Selecting an Acquisition Strategy.

Summary.

CHAPTER 9. ARCHITECTURE DESIGN.

Introduction.

Elements of an Architecture Design.

Creating an Architecture Design.

Hardware and Software Specification.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 10. USER INTERFACE DESIGN.

Introduction.

Principles for User Interface Design.

User Interface Design Process.

Navigation Design.

Input Design.

Output Design.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selection.

Summary.

CHAPTER 11. PROGRAM DESIGN.

Introduction.

Moving from Logical to Physical Process Models.

Designing Programs.

Structure Chart.

Program Specification.

Summary.

CHAPTER 12. DATA STORAGE DESIGN.

Introduction.

Data Storage Formats.

Moving from Logical to Physical Data Models.

Optimizing Data Storage.

Summary.

PART FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION PHASE.

CHAPTER 13. MOVING INTO IMPLEMENTATION.

Introduction.

Managing the Programming Phase.

Testing.

Developing Documentation.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 14. TRANSITION TO THE NEW SYSTEM.

Introduction.

Making the Transition to the New System.

The Migration Plan.

Postimplementation Activities.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 15. THE MOVEMENT TO OBJECTS.

Introduction.

Basic Characteristics of Object-Oriented Systems.

Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design.

Unified Modeling Language Version 2.0.

Use Case Diagram.

Class Diagram.

Sequence Diagram.

Behavioral State Machine Diagram.

Summary.

Index.