Synopses & Reviews
This groundbreaking text provides the most comprehensive, balanced and up-to-date coverage of systems analysis and design available. The Second Edition offers an increased emphasis on project management roles and practices and maintains the First Edition's dual focus on the concepts and techniques from both the traditional, structured approach and the object-oriented approach to systems development. Instructors continue to have the flexibility to emphasize one approach over the other, or both, while referring to one integrated case study that runs through every chapter. Throughout, the authors emphasize fundamentals of lasting value, while addressing the diverse development environments available today.
Synopsis
Provides the most comprehensive, balanced and up-to-date coverage of systems analysis and design. Maintains a dual focus on the traditional, structured and object-oriented (OO) approaches, and features an increased emphasis on project management.
Synopsis
This groundbreaking text provides the most comprehensive, balanced and up-to-date coverage of systems analysis and design available. The Second Edition offers an increased emphasis on project management roles and practices and maintains the First Edition's dual focus on the concepts and techniques from both the traditional, structured approach and the object-oriented approach to systems development. Instructors continue to have the flexibility to emphasize one approach over the other, or both, while referring to one integrated case study that runs through every chapter. Throughout, the authors emphasize fundamentals of lasting value, while addressing the diverse development environments available today.
Synopsis
System AnalysisandDesign in a Changing World, Third Edition, is a book with a more forward-thinking, real world approach. This new text continues the groundbreaking dual approach, focusing on concepts and techniques from both traditional systems analysis and the object-oriented approach.
About the Author
John Satzinger is a Professor in the Computer Information Systems department at Missouri State University. With more than 15 years of teaching and research experience at leading CIS and MIS university programs, Dr. Satzinger's interests and specialties include systems analysis and design, graphical user interface design, object-oriented development, and database and client-server development. He holds an MBA from Cal Poly University and earned his Ph.D. at the Claremont Graduate University. Robert Jackson is a retired member of the faculty of the Information Systems Department at Brigham Young University. He has researched, published, and taught in the areas of object-oriented systems development, e-commerce, Web systems, project management, and information systems education. Dr. Jackson received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He is currently self-employed as a principal in several new e-commerce ventures, where he gets to practice the analysis, design, and business principles contained in his textbooks. Stephen Burd is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, where he has been teaching courses in management information systems, networks, databases, and hardware/software since 1984. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Baltimore, and his Ph.D. from Purdue University, and has authored more than seven top-selling textbooks for Course Technology.
Table of Contents
Part 1: The Modern Systems Analyst 1. The World of the Modern Systems Analyst 2. The Analyst as a Project Manager 3. Approaches to System Development Part 2: Systems Analysis Tasks 4. Beginning the Analysis: Investigating System Requirements 5. Modeling System Requirements: Events and Things 6. The Traditional Approach to Requirements 7. The Object-Oriented Approach to Requirements 8. Evaluating Alternatives for Requirements, Environment and Implementation Part 3: Systems Design Tasks 9. Moving to Design 10. Designing Databases 11. Designing the User Interface 12. Designing System Interfaces, Controls, and Security Part 4: Implementation and Support 13. Rapid Application Development and Component-Based Development 14. Packaged Software and Enterprise Resource Planning 15. Making the System Operational Appendices: A: Principles of Project Management B: Project Schedules with PERT/CPM Charts C: Calculating Net Present Value, Payback Period, and Return on Investment D: Presenting the Results to Management