IS-207: System Analysis and Design Schedule - additional readings may be assigned
	Class	Topics	Readings
Home Schedule Assignments Resources	March 9^th	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.	"SAD" Text, Chapters 1-2
	March 14^th	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 16^th	"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.	"SAD" Text, Chapter 3
	March 21^st	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.	"SAD" Text, Chapters 4-7
	March 23^rd	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.	"SAD" Text, Chapters 8-12
	April 4^th	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 6^th	Statistics - 2 Measures of central tendency Excel vs. Statistical packages Introduction to SPSS PPT slides – Statistics 2
	April 11^th	Statistics & Using SPSS Basic procedures Recoding & transforming data Reports PPT slides – Statistics 3
	April 13^th	Costs - 1 Role of costs and economic feasibility General approach Problems with new technologies Terminology PPT slides (for both cost lectures)	"SAD" Text, Chapter 2 Costing manual
	April 18^th	Costs - 2 Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis Time value of money Project evaluation
	April 20^th	Accounting and Planning Planning & strategic management Business models Value chains The role of accounting Financial statements PPT slides	"SAD" Text, Chapter 14
	April 25^th	Oral Progress Reports Class members present oral reports on the status of their projects
	April 27^th	Budgets Organizational function of budgets Types of budgets Technology budgeting PPT slides: Continued from April 20 Additional links on resources page Queues and Optimizations Simple analytics of waiting ABCs of optimization PPT slides
	May 2^nd	Special joint class with panel of project managers
	May 4^th	Final Presentations - 1 First half of class groups present their projects to the class
	May 9^th	Final Presentations - 2 Second half of class groups present their projects to the class