Course Outline in IT 52 (Systems Analysis and Design) I. The World of the Information Systems Analyst 1.

1 The Analyst as a Business Problem Solver 1.2. Systems That Solve Business Problems 1.3 Required Skills of the Systems Analyst 1.4 The Environment Surrounding the Analyst 1.5 The Analysts Role in Strategic Planning 1.6 Rocky Mountain Outfitters and Its Strategic Information Systems Plan1.7 The Analyst as a System Developer (the heart of the course) II. Approaches to System Development 1.1 The Systems Development Life Cycle 1.2 Activities of Each SDLC Phase 1.3 Methodologies, Models, Tools, and Techniques 1.4 Two Approaches to System Development 1.5 Systems Development Life Cycle Variations 1.6 Current Trends in Development 1.7 Tools to Support System Development III. The Analyst as a Project Manager 2.1 Project Management 2.2 Project Initiation and Project Planning 2.3 Defining the Problem 2.4 Producing the Project Schedule 2.5 Confirming Project Feasibility 2.6 Staffing and Launching the Project 2.7 Recap of Project Planning for RMO IV. Beginning the Analysis: Investigating System Requirements 4.1 The Analysis Phase in More Detail 4.2 Business Process Reengineering and Zachman Framework 4.3 System Requirements 4.4 Stake Holders The Source of System Requirement 4.5 Techniques for Information Gathering 4.6 Validating the Requirements V. Modeling System Requirements 5.1 Models and Modeling 5.2 Events, Activities, and Use Cases 5.3 Things in the Problem Domain 5.4 The Entity Relationship 5.5 The Class Diagram VI. The Traditional Approach to Requirements 6.1 Traditional and Object-Oriented Views of Activities/Use Cases 6.2 Data Flow Diagrams 6.3 Documentation of DFD Component 6.4 Information Engineering Models 6.5 Locations and Communication through Networks

VII. The Object-Oriented Approach to Requirement 7.1 Object-Oriented Requirements 7.2 The System Activities A Use Case/ Scenario View 7.3 Identifying Inputs and Outputs 7.4 Identifying Object Behavior The State Machine Diagram VIII. Evaluating Alternatives for Requirements, Environment, and Implementation 8.1 Project Management Perspective 8.2 Deciding on Scope and Level of Automation 8.3 Defining the Application Deployment Environment 8.4 Choosing Implementation Alternatives 8.5 Contracting with Vendors 8.6 Presenting the Results and Making the Decisions IX. Elements of System Design 9.1 Understanding the Element s of Design 9.2 Design Phase Activities 9.3 Project Management: Coordinating the Project 9.4 Deployment Environment 9.5 Application Architecture 9.6 Network Design X. Designing the User Interface 10.1 Identifying and Classifying Inputs and Outputs 10.2 Understanding the User Interface 10.3 Guidelines for Designing User Interfaces 10.4 Documenting Dialog Designs 10.5 Guidelines for Designing Windows and Browser Forms 10.6 Guidelines for Designing Web Sites XI. Making the System Operational 11.1 Program Development 11.2 Quality Assurance 11.2 Data Conversion 11.3 Installation 11.4 Documentation 11.5 Training and User Support 11.6 Maintenance and System Enhancement