Faculty Contact Information:
The course begins June 13 and ends October 19, 2005.
INSTRUCTOR: Edmund I. Deaton
e-mail: edeaton@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
phone: +49 (0) 62 24 / 92 61 65 | |
Consultation:
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Required Texts and Readings:
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Satzinger, J., Jackson, R., and Burd, S. (2004). Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World (3rd ed.). Boston: Course Technology. | |
Supplementary Readings:
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The standard for papers in the graduate program is the APA style. All participants in this course and all graduate INSS, MGMT, PUAD, and ECON courses should have a copy of the style guide:
American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition. Washington DC: Author. All graduate students should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library at http://www.umuc.edu/library/. The library contains a large number of full text academic journals that are free of charge and immediately available. The library homepage also contains a number of links related to improving students' research and writing skills. | |
Recommended Journals:
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Publications of the various professional societies (such as ACM -- the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computing Society, and the various management professional societies) are strongly recommended. In addition, there are many trade journals (such as eWEEK) that MIS professionals should become familiar with, many of these being published both weekly and on-line. | |
Course Description:
| 3 semester hours credit. Prerequisites: Undergraduate statistics and quantitative methods, and either INSS 510, INSS 520, INSS 530, or permission of the Program Director. Provides an in-depth look at all phases of information systems development. Requirements acquisition methodologies are reviewed and evaluated with respect to different application areas. Logical design is reviewed and implementation issues are addressed. Data-centered as well as process-centered approaches to system design are reviewed. Particular design methodologies including structured design and object-oriented design are discussed. Life cycle as well as heuristic approaches to system development are examined and discussed. Organizational and behavioral issues with respect to information system development are examined. An analysis and design project will be required. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: INSS 540 or INSS 610. | |
Course Goals:
Upon completion of the course, participants should understand and be able to describe/explain:
1. The systems development life cycle (SDLC)
2. The reasons for formal systems analysis and design
3. Ethical, organizational and behavioral issues
4. Non-traditional systems development | |
Course Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course the student will be able to:
1. Compare and contrast methods for systems security and controls
2. Describe the processes and phases of IS development, and the deliverables associated with each phase of the SDLC
3. Distinguish methods for requirements acquisition
4. Justify the importance of structured logical analysis
5. Explain the difference between data centered and process centered methodologies
6. Compare and contrast conventional and object-oriented design methodologies
7. Discuss the steps involved in systems prototyping and Rapid Application Development
8. Design plans for systems implementation, operations and maintenance | |
Grading Information:
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Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:
A 92%
B 80 – 91%
C 70 – 79%
F Below 70%
Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F(a) is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion. Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog, available in your local Education Center or online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs.
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Course Requirements:
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Graduate school at the masters level focuses on helping students obtain the education needed for success as professionals in their chosen fields. Thus, UMUC-Europe Graduate Programs and Bowie State University share the common goals of promoting excellence in academic scholarship through thoughtful inquiry and the skillful application of knowledge and theory for the betterment of society.
In order to maximize your graduate educational experience in general and this course in particular, you are required to:
25% - Weekly assignments and discussions
25% - Participation and deliverables for group project
20% - Midterm exam
20% - Final exam
10% - Individual paper
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Description of Course Requirements:
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Participate in classroom discussions: You are expected to come to class prepared to engage in all discussions in a professional and informed manner. Usually this requires two to three hours for every hour of a face-to-face class and approximately ten hours of preparation per week for a DE class.
Complete graduate level projects and other assignments, write graduate level papers or case studies: You are required to conduct professional-level research, including appropriately citing works of others and avoiding plagiarism. Resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC, UMUC-Europe or BSU), partially or in its entirety, is not acceptable in this course and will result in an automatic failure on the assignment.
To master the material in this course, it is necessary to experience the systems development life cycle, including the need to work through it with other people in a group project.
You will be assigned a topic on which to write a 7-10 page individual paper.
There will be weekly exercises and discussion topics.
Orally/visually present prepared material: You are required to present your results in a professional manner. In a face-to-face course, this typically means an oral presentation accompanied by appropriate visual material. In a DE class, this means creating a visual/textual presentation for your instructor and classmates.
Complete one or more written examination(s): The examination process in this class will assist you in developing the writing and critical thinking skills necessary for successfully passing the comprehensive exam required of all graduate students. Some examination questions used for this course will either be taken directly from past comprehensive exams or written as though to be included on a comprehensive exam. | |
Course Schedule:
Projected course schedule. Any changes need as the course progresses will be announced in the WebTycho classroom.
All chapter references are to the course text.
WEEK 1: Introduction and Course Overview
- Introductions
- Review of Syllabus
- Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements
- Orientation to the subject
- The World of the Modern Systems Analyst
- Required Skills of the Systems Analyst
- The Analyst as a System Developer
- The Systems Development Life Cycle
- Tools to Support System Development
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapters 1 and 2
WEEK 2: The Analyst as Project Manager
- Project Management
- Producing the Project Schedule
- Using Microsoft Project 2003
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapter 3, Appendix A
WEEK 3: Systems Analysis Tasks
- Beginning the Analysis
- System Requirements
- Gathering the Information
- Validating the Requirements
- Assignment of Project Teams
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapter 4
WEEK 4: Modeling System Requirements
- Events and System Requirements
- Things and System Requirements
- The Class Diagram
- Due: A one-page paper from each team describing the project they wish to pursue
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapter 5
WEEK 5: The Traditional Approach to Requirements
- Traditional and Object-Oriented Views of Activities
- Data Flow Diagrams
- DFD Components
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapter 6, 7(Optional)
WEEK 6: Alternatives for Environments, Requirements and Implementation
- Project Management Perspective
- Scope and Level of Automation
- Contracting with Vendors
- Presenting the Results
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapter 8
WEEK 7: Review and Practice
- Mid Term Examination
- Due: An analysis document from each team presenting project recommendations for comments by peers and approval (or requirement for additional work) by "upper management"
WEEK 8: Moving to Design
- Understanding the Elements of Design
- Design Phase Activities
- Coordinating the Project
- Application Architecture
- Due: A one or two page paper identifying all deliverables from the team projects.
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapter 9
WEEK 9: The Traditional Approach to Design
- The Structured Approach to Application Architecture
- The System Flowchart and the Structure Chart
- Integrating the Design Tasks
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapter 10
WEEK 10: Designing Databases
- Databases and Database Management Systems
- Relational Databases
- Object-Oriented Databases
- Distributed Databases
- Due: Rough Draft of Project's Detailed Design (Work in progress)
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapter 13
WEEK 11: The User Interface
- Understanding the User Interface
- Designing the Interface
- Designing Windows and Browser Forms
- Identifying System Interfaces
- Designing System Inputs, Outputs and Controls
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapters 14, 15
WEEK 12: Implementation and Support
- Quality Assurance
- Data Conversion
- Installation and Documentation
- Training and User Support
- The Object-Oriented Approach to Requirements
- Object-Oriented Requirements
- Inputs and Outputs-The System Sequence Diagram
- The Domain Model Class Diagram
- Due: Project's Detailed Design Document
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapters 7 and 16
WEEK 13: Current Trends in System Development
- Rapid Application Development
- Prototyping
- The Spiral Approach
- The Unified Approach
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- A Look at SAP R/3
Satzinger, Jackson & Burd Chapters 17 and 18
WEEK 14:
- Final Examination
- Due: Final Versions of Revised Project Documents, "Plan" for Implementation and Support
- Course Evaluations
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Academic Policies:
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The University has a license agreement with Turnitin.com, a service that helps prevent plagiarism from internet resources. I may be using this service in this class by either requiring students to submit their papers electronically to Turnitin.com or by submitting questionable text on behalf of a student. If you or I submit part or all of your paper, it will be stored by Turnitin.com in their database throughout the term of the University's contract with Turnitin.com. If you object to this temporary storage of your paper, you must let me know no later than two weeks after the start of this class. Please Note: If you object to the storage of your paper on Turnitin.com, I may utilize other services to check your work for plagiarism The official university policy on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml. Section I.C. states: "Faculty may determine if the resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC), partially or in its entirety, is acceptable when assigning a grade on that piece of course work. Faculty must provide this information in their written syllabi. If the resubmission of course work is deemed to be unacceptable, a charge may not be brought under this Policy and will be handled as indicated in the written syllabi."
Please refer to Description of Course Requirements for specific information on how resubmissions will be treated in this course and to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
Code of Civility
Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center. | |
Faculty Bio:
INSTRUCTOR: Edmund I. Deaton
Dr. Deaton received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from The University of Texas. He has been teaching and doing research in Computer Science since 1980. After many years at San Diego State University he retired in 1992. He was a visiting professor at Hope College, Holland, Michigan during 1993-1995. He spent two years at Oklahoma State University from 1980 to 1982 as a visiting professor and visited there again in 1992. He worked as a management consultant with a Southern California consulting firm for several years in the 1980's. He specialized in database design for governmental entities. He has been with the University of Maryland, European Division since 1995. He teaches in the graduate MIS program and also teaches undergraduate computer science courses. His academic specialty is data base design. His primary hobbies are hiking and Alpine climbing. Although based in Heidelberg, he calls Rota, Spain home and hopes to be assigned there for some time each year. He is currently living in Germany. Phone: Germany: +49 (0) 62 24 / 92 61 65. | |