Short course name:

Information Systems Analysis and Design 2

Module number:

COM 204

Course Syllabus:

Requirements Analysis and Information Gathering:

Identifying primary and secondary sources of data within the organisation

Conducting structured and unstructured interviews

Administering questionnaires phone surveys

Focus groups and brainstorming

Observation as an information gathering tool

Modelling the business; determining end-user needs; specifying business rules

Identifying system constraint

Specifying functional goals and generating functional requirements documents.


Systems Design:

Translating system requirements into viable system designs

Generating competing logical designs

The role of prototyping in selecting optimum logical designs

Specifying object-oriented designs with UML; Case diagrams and object models

Using CASE tools to generate designs

Generating entity models, state-transition diagrams and processing flowcharts

Physical design issues - designing user-interaction schemes and user interfaces, program code specifications and algorithmic sequences; selecting optional data structures; database design; web-enable designs

Pre-Testing physical designs for consistency and robustness