INSS 540 - Information Mgmt Analysis and Design
IFSM 436 - Structured Systems Analysis and Design

Location	London, England
Term 4	Weekends: March 24, 25; April 7, 8; April 28,29; May 12,13 2001
Time	Approximate daily schedule: 09:00-10:00 class, 10:00-10:30 break, 10:30-12:00 class, 12:00-13:00 lunch, 13:00-14:00 class, 14:00-14:30 break, 14:30-16:00 class.
Lecturer	Fred Swartz, Email: fred@leepoint.net, Phone: 07799 187-201 Homepage: www.leepoint.net/fred
Office Hours	TBA
Prerequisites	For INSS 540: INSS 510, 520, 530 or permission of instructor For IFSM 436: IFSM 202 and CMIS 140, 150, or equivalent.
Credit	3 semester hours credit

Course Description

It is the job of systems analysis to plan how to design, develop, and implement information systems used by businesses. This requires a tool kit of techniques and procedures as well as communications skills to interact with users, programmers, managers, and executives.

This course looks at each phase of information systems development - what it is and how to go about doing it. The result of the analysis is a model of the business and software systems solution. Object-oriented modeling will be emphasized, although the fundamentals of the structured approach will also be covered. Software development life cycle methodologies will be examined, with emphasis on iterative approaches. Analysis and design coursework will be required. There will be a group project, and graduate students will write an additional paper.

Text

Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World by John W Satzinger, Robert D Burd, published by Course Technology, 2000

Supplementary Reading (Required)

Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 1996.: This is an excellent overview of software development approaches and best practices. There is quite a bit of "hard data" about what works (and what doesn't). Covers important topics that are missing from the text.

Course Objective

To provide general knowledge and understanding of all phases of information systems development. Students will be able to study an information system, define user requirements for a new system, propose and evaluate alternative solutions, develop a design for a new system, and understand system project management issues.

Evaluation

Grades are based on the following weighting. Note that graduate students have a paper to write.

INSS 540

IFSM 436

20%	Group projects
15%	Quizzes
25%	Midterm exam
30%	Final exam
10%	Individual paper
100%	Total

21%	Group projects
18%	Quizzes
28%	Midterm exam
33%	Final exam
	(no paper)
100%	Total

Grade equivalents: A 100-90, B 89-80, C 79-70, D 69-60, F <60

For group work, the same grade will be awarded to each member of the group. Credit will be given for both content and written presentation.

Class Policies

Students are expected to read all assigned materials before each weekend class.

Tentative Course Schedule

Weekend 1 - March 24, 25
Pre-Reading	Text: Ch 1, Ch 2 (skip pages 36-37), Ch 3 (skip SDLC Variations, pp 75-80), Ch 4, Ch 5 Rapid Dev: none
Saturday	am	Course orientation, introductions, Systems analysis - Big Picture
	pm	Requirements, Modeling
Sunday	am	Review, Quiz
	pm	Modeling, Events, ERDs, Classes
Weekend 2 - April 7, 8
Due	Group project proposals.
Pre-Reading	Text: Ch 6 DFD (skip 198-207), Ch 7 OOAD Rapid Dev: Ch 1-4, Ch 24 (JAD)
Saturday		Requirements Analysis (JAD, Use Case, DFD), Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD)
Sunday	am	Development strategies, mistakes, and fundamentals
	pm	Midterm
Weekend 3 - April 28, 29
Due	Individual paper outlines. Group project use cases.
Pre-Reading	Text: Ch 9 OOAD (skip 305-325, 341-343) Ch 10 DB (skip pp 372-384) Rapid Dev:Ch 6 Core Issues, Ch 7 Lifecycle Planning
Saturday	am	Object-oriented concepts and UML
	pm	Databases
Sunday	am	Development Issues
	pm	Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Weekend 4 - May 12, 13
Due	Group Projects
Pre-Reading	Text: (none) Rapid Dev:Ch 11 Motivation, Ch 18 Daily Build and Smoke Test, Ch 20 Evolutionary Delivery, Ch 21 Evolutionary Prototyping, Ch 39 (Timebox Development), Ch 42 (User-Interface Prototyping)
Saturday		Development Approaches
Sunday	am	Review
	pm	Final Exam

About the Instructor

Fred Swartz has taught computer science at the University of Michigan and more recently at universities in Thailand and Ecuador. He has also done extensive systems analysis and programming in industrial and academic settings.

INSS 540 - Information Mgmt Analysis and Design IFSM 436 - Structured Systems Analysis and Design