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Modern Systems Analysis and Design, 5/E
ISBN-10: 0132240769
ISBN-13: 9780132240765
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Cloth; 648 pp
Published: 03/02/2007
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For advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Systems Analysis and Design taught from a business perspective.
Modern Systems Analysis and Design offers separate coverage of Object-Oriented and Structured material giving instructors flexibility to choose the best way to connect the material with students.
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For advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Systems Analysis and Design taught from a business perspective.
Modern Systems Analysis and Design offers separate coverage of Object-Oriented and Structured material giving instructors flexibility to choose the best way to connect the material with students.
What approach do you take in teaching Systems Analysis and Design? Do you find your students are more responsive to learning through a structured approach or an object-oriented approach? Why?
Object Oriented Approach: Self-contained at the end of applicable chapters, this approach is designed to present students with real-world examples. The material ranges from exercises on IS project management, to a special section on use cases, to a unique piece on sequence and activity diagrams, to an elaborate bit on object-oriented database design at the end of Chapter 9.
· Pg. 203
Structured Approach: This is a traditional, linear approach to teaching systems analysis and design. Chapters focus on the role, responsibilities and mindset of the systems analyst to define the methods and principles of systems development, rather than specific tools or tool-related skills of the field.
· Pg. 130
OTHER POINTS OF DIFFERENTIATION
How do you bring the business approach/object oriented approach into your course? How do you use examples in your class to help your students understand SAD? How important are cases in presentation of the material?
Real World Cases Available: This text features three fictional cases in order to tie in potential issues that arise in the profession to the concepts and methods they are learning in the classroom.
Cases include corporations such as: Pine Valley Furniture, Hoosier Burger, and Broadway Entertainment Company, Inc. to illustrate corporate problems and challenges.
· Pg. 203
What do you use as a demonstration tool in class to emphasize and clarify technical aspects of systems analysis? How often do students approach you with questions about the technology after class? Are these technologies always up-to-date, including the latest changes that are presented in the industry?
Additional Screen Captures: These have been added and updated to show examples using the latest version of CASE tools, which provide automated support for some portion of the systems development process. These include: Rational Rose, programming and Internet development environments, and user interface. Additionally, references to websites are provided for students to stay current with technology trends that affect the analysis and design of information systems.
· Pg. 142
What types of activities or homework do you have your students do in or out of class?
Extensive End of Chapter Material: The authors developed an extensive selection of end-of-chapter materials that are designed to accommodate various learning and teaching styles. Depending on students wants and needs, instructors can base their reviews off of the many exercises available.
· Chapter Summary: reviews the major topics of each chapter and previews the connection of the current tools with future ones. Pg. 277
· Key Terms: are designed to self-test students on their understanding of definitions Pg. 277
· Review Questions: tests students understanding of key concepts Pg. 88
· Problems & Exercises: tests students analytical skills Pg. 88
· Field Exercises: explores the practice of systems analysis and design in organizations Pg. 279
· References: to encourage further exploration of concepts within systems analysis Pg. 279
New To This Edition
What approach do you take in teaching Systems Analysis and Design? Do you find your students are more responsive to learning through a structured approach or an object-oriented approach? Why?
New approach to the presentation of object oriented material. For instructors that feel students grasp concepts more readily with real-world examples, the authors now paired object-oriented material with the corresponding structured material in four chapters, but the OO material is not integrated. This new organization cleanly separates out structured and object-oriented approaches, so that instructors not teaching OO can bypass it. Instructors who find object-orientation useful can now so incorporate it with minimal effort.
- Pg. 89, 203, 248, & 280
Are you able to cover everything in your textbook during your course time? Do you find yourself leaving things out? Would it be helpful to have a streamlined textbook to make it easier to teach MIS?
Appendices Integrated into Main Content of Text. Instead of sixteen chapters and three appendices, this edition eliminates the appendices altogether to streamline the text and make it easier to teach and learn from.
A portion of the previous edition’s appendix on CASE tools has been integrated into Chapter 1 where students can benefit from it directly.
- Pg. 20
The remaining object-oriented material is paired with the appropriate structured method chapter (Chapter 8) making this material easier to use by the instructors.
- Pg. 260
How do you incorporate professional programming language into the classroom?
New ER notation. The authors have included a new notation for entity-relationship diagramming in Chapter 8 and elsewhere. This notation is consistent with that used in Modern Database Management, 8e, by Hoffer, Prescott and McFadden to provide a clear understanding of the vocabulary students need to become effective systems analysts.
- Pg. 255
Project Management Updates. In order to be consistent with the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge, Chapters 3 and 5 have been reconstructed to reflect the project charter and the project scope statement. In addition, Chapter 3 now includes a discussion of software cost estimation, focusing on COCOMO, or the “Constructive Cost Model.”
- Pg. 59
What do you use as a demonstration tool in class to emphasize and clarify technical aspects of systems analysis? How often do students approach you with questions about the technology after class? Are these technologies always up-to-date, including the latest changes that are presented in the industry?
Additional Screen Captures: These have been added and updated to show examples using the latest version of CASE tools, which provide automated support for some portion of the systems development process. These include: Rational Rose and programming and Internet development environments. Additionally, references to websites are provided for students to stay current with technology trends that affect the analysis and design of information systems.
OTHER CHANGES:
* Throughout the book, the content in each chapter has been updated where appropriate
* Chapter 15 now includes a section on system security
* The Broadway Entertainment Company has been extensively updated and revised to include online movie rental similar to Netflix and several new figures.
* Outdated topics have been eliminated. Topics no longer in the text include: (1) discussion of group support systems in Chapter 6 (2) Oracle-based diagrams and references in Chapter 7 (3) Decision trees in Chapter 8 (4) Structure chart special symbols in Chapter 13 (5) the Athens and Capital City story in Chapter 15.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Systems Development Environment
Chapter 2: The Origins of Software
Chapter 3: Managing the Information Systems Project
Chapter 4: Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects
Chapter 5: Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects
Chapter 6: Determining System Requirements
Chapter 7: Structuring System Process Requirements
Chapter 8: Structuring System Logic Requirements
Chapter 9: Structuring System Data Requirements
Chapter 10: Designing Databases
Chapter 11: Designing Forms and Reports
Chapter 12: Designing Interfaces and Dialogues
Chapter 13: Finalizing Design Specifications
Chapter 14: Designing Distributed and Internet Systems
Chapter 15: System Implementation
Chapter 16: Maintaining Information Systems
Glossary of terms
Acronym glossary
Credits
Index
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