IS-207: System Analysis and Design

Schedule - additional readings may be assigned

 

 

 

Class

Topics

Readings

Home

 

Schedule

Assignments

Resources

 

 

March

9th

Overview, Software Development Lifecycle
 

  • Introductions, etc.
  • What this class will teach
  • The Software Development Life Cycle
  • Answering "Why" and "How" on a project.
  • PowerPoint slides for class #1.

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Chapters 1-2

March

14th

Development in Organizations

  • Organizational Environment of Systems development
  • People, Roles vs. Titles
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Matrix Management and Conflict
  • "Who's who" on a project.
  • PowerPoint slides for class #2.

 

March

16th

"Everything you needed to know about Project Management*"

  • Project Management essentials: Tasks and Milestones, Effort vs. Duration
  • Dependencies, Critical Path, Contingencies
  • Estimating schedule and costs in the real world
  • "When will this system get delivered?"
  • PowerPoint slides for class #3.
  • Additional slides on other tools and techniques from "shrink-wrap" companies.

*but were afraid to ask.

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Chapter 3

March

21st

Systems Analysis - Requirements

  • Process analysis
  • Data flow analysis
  • Use cases
  • Answering "What will this system do?"
  • PowerPoint slides for class #4.
  • Alibris sample Visio's: formal and informal.

 

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Chapters 4-7

March

23rd

Systems Analysis - Design & Specifications

  • Architecture
  • User Interface, User Experience
  • Writing specifications
  • Creating a detailed implementation plan
  • Answering: "How will we build this?"
  • PowerPoint slides for class #5.

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Chapters 8-12

April

4th

Mission, Goals & Objectives

  • PPT slides with brief overview & guidelines

Statistics - 1

  • Understanding data
  • Descriptive statistics (continuous & discrete)
  • Measures of central tendency
  • Data collection
  • Research design issues
  • Sample size
  • PPT slides - Statistics 1

 

 

April

6th

Statistics - 2

  • Measures of central tendency
  • Excel vs. Statistical packages
  • Introduction to SPSS
  • PPT slides – Statistics 2

 

April

11th

Statistics & Using SPSS

  • Basic procedures
  • Recoding & transforming data
  • Reports
  • PPT slides – Statistics 3

 

April

13th

Costs - 1

  • Role of costs and economic feasibility
  • General approach
  • Problems with new technologies
  • Terminology
  • PPT slides (for both cost lectures)

 

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Chapter 2

 

Costing manual

April

18th

Costs - 2

  • Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Time value of money
  • Project evaluation

 

 

April

20th

Accounting and Planning

  • Planning & strategic management
  • Business models
  • Value chains
  • The role of accounting
  • Financial statements
  • PPT slides

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Chapter 14

April

25th

Oral Progress Reports

  • Class members present oral reports on the status of their projects

 

April 27th

Budgets

  • Organizational function of budgets
  • Types of budgets
  • Technology budgeting
  • PPT slides:
    1. Continued from April 20
    2. Additional links on resources page

Queues and Optimizations

  • Simple analytics of waiting
  • ABCs of optimization
  • PPT slides

 

May 2nd

Special joint class with panel of project managers

 

May 4th

Final Presentations - 1

  • First half of class groups present their projects to the class

 

May 9th

Final Presentations - 2

  • Second half of class groups present their projects to the class