Students will form teams and complete a semester project. The project will require student teams to
integrate material from other courses to plan, define, analyze, design, build, test and deploy an
information system solution to solve a real business problem. (Letter grade only.) (Offered spring semester only.)

CIS 411 Systems Analysis and Design Concepts

Texts and materials are available in the College Bookstore.

1. Systems Analysis & Design An Object-Oriented Approach with UML Version 2.0: An Object-Oriented Approach, by Alan Dennis, Barbara Wixom and David Tegarden, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002
2. Articles and URLs referenced and sited throughout lecture notes with links to articles when available
3. Software – MS Office, Visio
4. Selected articles/readings appropriate to the non-profit organization we are working with.

Brian A. Nejmeh, Professor of Business Information Systems and Entrepreneurship

A core course for all senior Computer and Information Science majors.

 

The objective of this course is for students to experience the successful definition, design, development, test and deployment of a business information system in a real-world team project setting. The course will employ a hands-on approach where students are expected to learn by actually developing a BIS. This course will allow students to

• apply the concepts of the systems development life cycle;
• apply UML object-oriented systems analysis and design methods;
• perform systems analysis and design tasks such as:
  • defining system requirements,
  • modeling system data and processes,
  • software systems architecture,
  • designing databases,
  • designing system inputs and outputs,
  • designing user interfaces for usability;
• perform systems implementation, test and deployment tasks,
• use the concepts of effective project management;
• learn and demonstrate knowledge of system development tools;
• in some cases, the projects selected are best served by an existing software application, if this is the case, then some of the project life cycle related to development and implementation will be changed to reflect the fact that an existing software application is being used as the basis for the project.

 

The objective of this course is for students to experience the successful completion of a practical project for a non-profit organization in a team setting. The course will employ a hands-on approach where students are expected to learn by actually developing a system.