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| 0571-2124-01 | Analysis and Design of Information Systems | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 3.0
Course description
Credit points: 3
Prerequisites: Introduction to Information Systems
Overview:
This course acquaints industrial engineering students with various approaches to analysis and development of organizational information systems within a system development life-cycle (SDLC).
Topics:
Introduction to systems analysis and design – the information systems development life-cycle, stages of information system development, various approaches to life cycle of information systems; initiation of a new system; studying the organization processes including requirements gatherings and analysis; preliminary specification of the required system; feasibility study - analysis of alternatives, request for information and request for proposals (RFI/RFP), comparisons and cost-benefit analysis of proposals; system analysis according to the functional approach - data flow diagrams (DFD), hierarchical decomposition and data dictionary; system design - design of transactions, design of the user-interface (menu-tree), design of inputs and outputs, design of the database schema; introduction to object-oriented analysis & design; introduction to business process management; introduction to knowledge management.
Assignments:
1. Final exam (60%)
2. Team project (40%) – composed of four assignments. Each assignment will require the composition of a document that employs different part of the SDLC.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Information Systems
Overview:
This course acquaints industrial engineering students with various approaches to analysis and development of organizational information systems within a system development life-cycle (SDLC).
Topics:
Introduction to systems analysis and design – the information systems development life-cycle, stages of information system development, various approaches to life cycle of information systems; initiation of a new system; studying the organization processes including requirements gatherings and analysis; preliminary specification of the required system; feasibility study - analysis of alternatives, request for information and request for proposals (RFI/RFP), comparisons and cost-benefit analysis of proposals; system analysis according to the functional approach - data flow diagrams (DFD), hierarchical decomposition and data dictionary; system design - design of transactions, design of the user-interface (menu-tree), design of inputs and outputs, design of the database schema; introduction to object-oriented analysis & design; introduction to business process management; introduction to knowledge management.
Assignments:
1. Final exam (60%)
2. Team project (40%) – composed of four assignments. Each assignment will require the composition of a document that employs different part of the SDLC.