Intended primarily toward undergraduate and graduate systems analysis and design courses, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals.

Teaching and Learning Experience
This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. It provides:

• Fully Engaged Students : Three fictional cases illustrate connections.
  
• A Clear Understanding of Systems Development: The authors use the systems development life cycle (SDLC) model as an organizing tool throughout the text.
  
• Better Critical Thinking: A traditional, linear approach to teaching systems analysis and design.
  

2. The Origins of Software

3. Managing the Information Systems Project

Appendix: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Project Management

II. PLANNING

4. Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects

5. Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects

III. ANALYSIS

6.  Determining System Requirements

7.  Structuring System Process Requirements

Appendix 7A: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Use Cases

Appendix 7B: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Activity Diagrams

Appendix 7C: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Sequence Diagrams

Appendix 7D: Business Process Modeling

8. Structuring System Data Requirements

Appendix: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Object Modeling—Class Diagrams

IV. DESIGN

9.  Designing Databases

10. Designing Forms and Reports

11. Designing Interfaces and Dialogues

12. Designing Distributed and Internet Systems

V. IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE

13. System Implementation

14. Maintaining Information Systems

Glossary of Terms

Glossary of Acronyms

Index