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Essentials of System Analysis and Design, 3/E
ISBN-10: 0131854623
ISBN-13: 9780131854628
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2006
Format: Cloth; 480 pp
Published: 08/15/2005
Description
Written primarily for undergraduates Systems Analysis & Design courses in CIS and MIS programs. It is designed for courses seeking a streamlined approach to the course due to course duration, lab assignments, or special projects.
This text is a briefer version (over 200 pages less) of the authors successful Modern Systems Analysis and Design text.
Features
Written primarily for undergraduates Systems Analysis & Design courses in CIS and MIS programs. It is designed for courses seeking a streamlined approach to the course due to course duration, lab assignments, or special projects.
This text is a briefer version (over 200 pages less) of the authors successful Modern Systems Analysis and Design text.
Are you covering all the chapter material? Would you be interested in a briefer text that condenses the Systems Development Life Cycle and builds on each step chapter to chapter?
- The System Development Life Cycle Framework (SDLC), central in the development of an information system provides the students with a strong conceptual and systematic framework.
- Each chapter preview opens with an SDLC figure and shows how each step of the SDLC builds on each other.
- This text uses a 4 step SDLC.
- Examples: pp. 3, 37, 79, 119, 151
- Examples: pp. 3, 37, 79, 119, 151
OTHER POINTS OF DIFFERENTIATION:
Do you use cases? Would you be interested in a running case that ties that chapter content together?
- ECommerce issues are explored in the running case, Pine Valley Furniture WebStore. Beginning in Chapter 3 the authors explore use a "step-by-step" process to explore a team of Analysts work together to develop, propose, implement, and maintain a WebStore.
- Examples: pp. 104, 139
- Broadway Entertainment Company, Inc.- This end-of-chapter case illustrates how a fictional video and record retailer develops a web-based customer relationship management system. This case first appears at the end of chapter 2 and concludes at the end of chapter 10.
- Examples: pp. 71, 113, 146
- CASE Technology-Used throughout the text to illustrate typical systems analysis and design documents and CASE (computer-aided software engineering)-based systems development is discussed.
- Examples: pp. 48, 50, 51
Do you assign web based exercises?
- Net Search Exercises - The Companion Web site www.prenhall.com/valacich includes links to sites noted in the Net Search exercises found in the text's margins. It also includes an Online Study Guide, Destinations, and Glossaries.
- Examples: pp. 39, 63, 95, 129
- Examples: pp. 39, 63, 95, 129
Do you package any software in the course? Would you be interested in packaging it with the text?
- Text can be packaged with Visible Analyst, Oracle, MS Visio, MS Project, or Systems Architect.
New To This Edition
Agile Methodology and eXtreme Programming
- The text reflects current changes in systems analysis and design. The move to structured analysis and design in the late 1970s was considered to be a revolution in how systems development was conducted. We are undergoing another revolution in systems development now, as we move away from complex, plan-driven development to new approaches called "Agile Methodologies." Although the best known Agile Methodology is eXtreme Programming, there are many other approaches. The Agile revolution in systems development is acknowledged and briefly explained primarily in Chapter 1 and then explored in much more depth in Appendix B.
- Examples: pp. 29
Increased focus on make versus buy and systems integration
- More and more systems development involves the use of packages in combination with legacy applications and new modules. Coverage of the make versus buy decision and of the multiple sources of software and software components has been moved forward in the book to highlight the salience of these topics. Chapter 1 shows how companies deal with these issues, based on material that was originally in the chapter about selecting the best design strategy.
- Examples: pp. 10-17
The text has been reorganized
- The Third Edition retains the same number of chapters and appendices as previous editions, but some of the content has shifted and other content has been dropped. The material on make-vs-buy and on the sources of software has been moved to the first chapter. The appendix on RAD and CASE has been dropped. A new appendix on Agile Methodologies takes its place. Material on developing and using questionnaires for requirements determination has also been dropped.
Integration of electronic commerce into the running cases
- Pine Valley Furniture, is a furniture company founded in 1980, that has decided to explore electronic commerce as an avenue to increase its market share.
- Broadway Entertainment Company, Inc. (BEC), a fictional video and record retailer, is an end of chatper student project case that allows students to study and develop a Web-based customer relationship management system.
- Hoosier Burger is a fast food restaurant that illustrates how analysts develop and implement food ordering sytems.
Updated illustrations of technology
- Screen captures have been updated throughout the text to show examples using the latest versions of programming and Internet development environments, and user interface designs. Many references to Websites are provided for students to stay current with technology trends that affect the analysis and design of information systems.
Table of Contents
| Part I: Foundations for Systems Development |
| Ch 1: The Systems Development Environment
Ch 2: Managing the Information Systems Project
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| Part II: Systems Planning and Selection |
| Ch 3: Systems Planning and Selection
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| Part III: Systems Analysis |
| Ch 4: Determining System Requirements
Ch 5: Structuring System Requirements: Process Modeling
Ch 6: Structuring System Requirements: Conceptual Data Modeling
Ch 7: Selecting the Best Alternative Design Strategy
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| Part IV: Systems Design |
| Ch 8: Designing the Human Interface
Ch 9: Designing Databases
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| Part V: Systems Implementation and Operation |
| Ch 10: Systems Implementation and Operation
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| Appendix A: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Appendix B: Agile Methodologies
Glossary of Acronyms
Glossary of Terms
Index
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