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Administrative Details
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HW #7, Project Assignment #1 due
HW #7 solution set, Project Assignment 3 solution set handout
Project Assignment #2, ‘98 Midterm #2 handout
Midterm #2 Thursday 10/4 during regularly scheduled lab
Web: FrontPage2000 books, project team server space
Wednesday review session: read the Shelly, Cashman and Rosenblatt material on data flow diagrams!
I will be out of town Friday 11/5 - Wednesday 11/10
Systems Analysis and Design
Course so far has emphasized:
Logical design of databases (E-R Diagrams and Relational Database Models)
Implementation of databases (Access tables, forms, queries, reports and macros
However, information systems development must address broader organizational issues as well:
What is the justification for the type of application to be developed?
What actual or desired processes should the application perform?
How will we verify that the application performs as designed?
Systems Development Lifecycle Steps
The SDLC is generally presented as an iterative sequence of five steps:
Systems Planning
Systems Analysis
Systems Design
Systems Implementation
Systems Operation and Support,
each culminating in a deliverable, either a written document or a piece of software (or both)
How Is the SDLC Used In This Class?
Clearly, the SDLC requires significant time, human resources and technical resources to perform well.
For the class project, your team must implement the SDLC steps as follows:
Systems Planning (project requirements summary, project team description, preliminary work schedule, service area demographic analysis)
Systems Analysis (E-R diagram, Data Flow Diagrams, high-level functional description)
Systems Design (RDBM, Data Dictionary, identification/description of database objects, Web site map)
Systems Implementation (Access database, Web site content, elementary test plan)
In addition, a White Paper will address practical systems implementation and operations/support issues.