'Help your students develop the solid conceptual, technical, and managerial foundations they need for effective systems analysis design and implementation as well as strong project management skills for systems development with INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN: AN AGILE, ITERATIVE APPROACH, 6E. Authors Satzinger, Jackson, and Burd use a popular, highly effective presentation to teach both traditional (structured) and object-oriented (OO) approaches to systems analysis and design. Now streamlined to 14 chapters, this agile, iterative book emphasizes use case driven techniques as the authors focus on the content that's most important to know for success in systems analysis and design today. The book highlights use cases, use diagrams, and the use case descriptions required for a modeling approach, while demonstrating their application to traditional approaches, Web development approaches, object-oriented approaches, and service-oriented architecture approaches. Students become familiar with the most recent developments and tools as content reflects Microsoft® Project 2010. Expanded coverage of project management in this edition emphasizes issues critical for adaptive projects as well as the traditional predictive approach to projects. A new continuing case study, new mini-projects, and a "Best Practices" feature further strengthen the book's practical applications of skills learned.
' HANDS-ON PRACTICE AND PROVEN EXERCISES EMPHASIZE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF SKILLS. Each chapter weaves proven, hands-on practice into every section, giving your students an opportunity to immediately apply concepts. Thoroughly tested exercises at the end of the book relate back to each chapter to further reinforce the practicality and application of what students are learning. STREAMLINED TOPICS FOCUS ON NEED-TO-KNOW CONTENT. To provide an engaging, yet focused, systems analysis text the authors have streamlined the number of topics covered to clearly emphasize the areas that are most important for success in systems analysis and design today. CLEAR LEARNING OBJECTIVES GUIDE STUDENTS' STUDY. New, well-defined Learning Objectives for each chapter and each section direct students' attention to the most important concepts and practices, while guiding their efforts in class preparation, study and review. FEWER CHAPTERS PROVIDE SHORTER, STREAMLINED COVERAGE. To provide an overall text length that is manageable for your course, while still providing the coverage your students need for effective systems analysis and design, the authors have reduced the number of chapters in this edition from 17 to 14 chapters. Additional, optional coverage is included in online chapters for easy reference. FOUR ALL-NEW CONTINUING CASES PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO PRACTICE NEWLY ACQUIRED SKILLS. This edition provides four new continuing cases that follow a realistic company through each area of the systems analysis and design processes and iterative development. Students gain valuable hands-on experience as well as a solid understanding of how each of the stages works together to achieve the overall goal. THE LATEST CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS TODAY'S MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, TRENDS AND IMPORTANT SKILLS. The authors have updated coverage throughout this edition to focus on emerging topics and industry changes. New content addresses adaptive (agile) development and project management for adaptive projects activity diagrams use case descriptions as well as class, sequence, and state diagrams. Streamlined coverage also emphasizes critical topics related to ER models.
'Part I: AN INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT. 1. From Beginning to End: An Overview of Systems Analysis and Design Optional Online Chapter A: The Role of the Systems Analyst (reletter from OLC 1). Part II: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITIES. 2. Investigating System Requirements. 3. Use Cases. 4. Domain Modeling. 5. Extending the Requirements Models. Optional Online Chapter B: The Traditional Approach to Requirements (reletter from OLC 3). Part III: ESSENTIALS OF SYSTEMS DESIGN. 6. Essentials of Design and the Design Discipline. 7. Designing User and Systems Interfaces. Part IV: PROJECTS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT. 8. Approaches to System Development. 9. Project Planning and Project Management. Optional Online Chapter C Project Management Techniques (reletter from OLC 2). Part V: ADVANCED DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT CONCEPTS. 10. Object-Oriented Design: Principles. 11. Object-Oriented Design: Use Case Realizations. 12. Databases, Controls and Security. 13. Making the System Operational. 14. Current Trends in Systems Development.
'John W. Satzinger John Satzinger is a Professor in the Computer Information Systems department at Missouri State University. With teaching and research experience at leading CIS and MIS university programs since 1991, Dr. Satzinger provides a strong managerial focus and powerful vision for this text. His interests and specialties include systems analysis and design, graphical user interface design, object-oriented development, and database and client-server development. He earned his MBA from Cal Poly University and his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University. Robert B. Jackson Robert Jackson is a retired member of the faculty of the Information Systems Department at Brigham Young University. He has researched, published, and taught in the areas of object-oriented systems development, e-commerce, Web systems, project management, and information systems education. Bringing a wealth of real-world business experience and technical expertise to this book, Dr. Jackson is currently self-employed as a principal in several new e-commerce ventures, where he practices firsthand the analysis, design, and business principles presented in the Seventh Edition. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. Stephen D. Burd Dr. Stephen Burd is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, where he has been teaching courses in management information systems, networks, databases, and hardware/software since 1984. The author of more than seven top-selling textbooks for Course Technology and Cengage Learning, Dr. Burd brings significant strengths and industry knowledge to this text. He received his B.B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Baltimore and his Ph.D. from Purdue University.
