Stuructured Systems Analyis and Design

West Valley College

CIS011

STRUCTURED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

FALL 03

Instructor: Al Mingione, CDP, CSP Office: 408/258-8791 (Daytime)

E-MAIL MINGIONE@yahoo.COM PREFERRED COMMUNICATIONS

Class: Tuesday 6:50 to 10 PM Room: CR 3

Office Hours: Before class BY APPOINTMENT using email

Required Text: Systems Analysis & Design Methods, fifth edition
by Whitten, Bentley, Barlow, 2003, IRWIN.

Course Description:

A study of the methodology of structured Systems Analysis and Design, and how these techniques can be applied to Business Information System Development. A development project follows the System Development Life circle (SDLC) and each process of the phased approach will be identified and defined. A System application requires a technocal person to build it (System Analyst), and a manager to fund the project. A review of the principle participants and their roles and responsibilities for formulating sytem requirements with a special emphasis on the System Analyst abilities and skills.

E-COMMERCE is the new challenge for Business and the application of Information Technology. This semester the projects and assignment will be oriented to E-COMMERCE. A second emphasis is small business appliation and services.

Course Learning Objectives:

At the end of this course, each student should be able to:

1. Define the tasks, the principal participants, and the deliverables for each phase of the SDLC.

2. Apply basic system tools, techniques, and methods for business applications, with an emphasis on information engineering.

3. Formulate and structure "information customer" requirements for a business system.

4. Perform Data analysis and Process analysis for business systems with an emphasis on JAD.

5. Define and design input and outputs for a computer application.


Knowledge Trek KT

An Analyst must present hi/her knowledge on a topic/subject when performing an analysis, or offering an opinion, a recommendation, or to perform a Q & A.
The WEB contains a wealth of knowledge on Information Technology, and Business Applications.
By surfing the WEB you travel to locations all over the world and find valuable URL's with content that provides you with information relevant to your knowledge search.
The purpose of the Knowledge Trek is to report YOUR Insights, Questions, or Revieq of the gathered information, also you should identify the URL's in the report that provide good information.
The Knowledge Trek report should be E-mailed to me before the Tuesday night class following the assignment date. The report should be a single page suitable for management. The grade is 10 points if received before Tuesday night class and relates to subject with good analysis, otherwise 5 points when late.



Projects

Part of this course will be the development of an individual or group class project. I encourage you to use the WWW resources to conduct your research and Power Point to present the subject.

Project deliverables:

1. Project Outline for a subject or System
2. Project Abstract for a subject or System Design
3. Class Project presentation and report

 

GRADING:

EXAM #1 25% PROJECT OUTLINE 5%

EXAM #2 35% PROJECT ABSTRACT 5% PROJECT REPORT 15%

Participation 5% Assignments and / or presentations

Knowledge Trek Assignments 10 %

A: 90% - 100% B: 80% - 89% C: 70% - 79% D: 60% - 69% F: Below 60%

CIS011 STRUCTURED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN SPRING 2003

DATE

CLASS

ASSIGNMENTS

TOPIC

1/28

1

Data Entry student ID, Trade journal articla abstract
KT research-Frederic Taylor

Course Overview WEB site Introduction
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/mingione/feedback.html

2/4

2

CH.1 Trade journal artical review due
CH.2 KT Research -RAD

Information Analysis
Information System Analyst & Principal Participants

2/11

3

CH.3 & CH.4 KT Research-JAD

System Developement Life Cycle

2/18

4

CH.5 KT Research-TQM

System Analysis Interviewing

2/25

5

Ch.6 KT Research E-Business
Project Identified

Requirements Discovery

3/4

6

CH.7 KT Research- Workflow models

Data Modeling & Analysis

3/11

7

Ch 8 & 9

Process Modeling REVIEW for Mid term CHS. 1 to 9

3/18

8

EXAM OUTLINES DUE

CHS. 1 to 9*SCANTRON

3/25

 

Spring Break

 

4/1

9

System Development Confernece

Discuss the EXPO's vendors information on products and services

4/8

10

CH. 10 & 11 & 12 KT Research-ERP ABSTRACT DUE

Review Mid term Data Base Design

4/15

10

CH 13,14 & 15 KT Research- INTRANET


Designing and Prototyping INPUTS & OUTPUTS

4/22

12

CH. 16 & CH. 17 (Last day to drop 4/23) Implementation & System Support

4/29

13

PROJECT PRESENTATIONS PROJECT DUE

5/6

14

PROJECT PRESENTATIONS  

5/13

15

INAL EXAM REVIEW CH. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

5/20

16

EXAM **SCANTRON**

Last updated on May 13, 2003