CIS 280 - Systems Analysis and Design: Concepts and Tools

1. Identify the elements of the SDLC (System Development Life Cycle).
2. Identify the major tasks of each phase of the SDLC.
3. Explain the process of managing an information systems project.

1. Systems Development Overview
   1. Types of information systems
   2. Systems development life cycle (SDLC)
2. The Systems Analyst
   1. Skills of systems analysts
   2. Systems analysis as a profession
3. Information Systems Project Management
   1. Project management
   2. Project planning
   3. Critical path scheduling
   4. Gantt and PERT charts
4. Overview of CASE Tools
   1. CASE tools and the SDLC
   2. CASE tool types
5. Selecting Information Systems Projects
   1. The project identification and selection process
   2. Relationship between corporate strategic planning IS planning
6. Planning Systems Development Projects
   1. Feasibility studies
   2. Cost-benefit analysis
7. Determining System Requirements
   1. Interviews
   2. Questionnaires
   3. Automated data collection
   4. Joint application design
8. Process Modeling: Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs)
9. Logic Modeling: Decision Tables and Trees
10. Conceptual Data Modeling: Entity Relationship (E-R) Diagrams
11. Selecting Alternative Designs
12. Rapid Application Development
13. Designing Forms and Reports Design
14. User Interface Design
15. Logical Database Design
16. Physical Database Design
17. Program and Process Design
    1. Coupling and cohesion
18. Representing Logic with Pseudocode
19. Distributed System Design
20. System Implementation
    1. Coding, testing, and conversion
    2. Test planning
    3. Installation strategies
21. System Maintenance