Tuesday, 8/25/09: Introductions and business

Thursday, 8/27/09: Defining Systems Analysis, Information System, and the Software Development Life Cycle

Slides: SA Intro and SDLC

Reading:
Modell, M E. (c1996). A professional's guide to systems analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill. [E-Reserves]

• Read pp. 9-10.

Chapter 1: The Systems Development Environment

• Read pp. 3-7 (stop at Types of Information Systems and System Development)
• Read pp. 9-28 (start at Developing Information Systems and the Systems Development Life Cycle and continue to the end of the chapter)

Tuesday, 9/1/09: Types of Software

Slides: Types of Software

Reading:
Chapter 1: The Systems Development Environment

• Read pp. 7-9 (start at Types of Information Systems and Systems Development and stop at Developing Information Systems and The Systems Development Life Cycle)

Chapter 2: The Origins of Software

• Read the entire chapter from pp. 31-45

Thursday, 9/3/09: Project Management

Slides: Project Management
(If you print slides, I would recommend you print just the first 10-15 since we will not get to all the slides. These are meant for all 3 days we will be spending on PM and I may change the later ones.)

Reading:
Chapter 3: Managing the Information Systems Project

• Read pp. 47 – 74 (stop at Using Project Management Software) and 78.
• You may choose to skim the Using Project Management Software section on pp. 74 - 77 if you are interested in learning more about PM software. If you are interested in PM software, you can try Microsoft Project in the lab downstairs; or Entourage on the Mac offers a way into Project. There is also OmniPlan (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/).

Additional Resource:

• Project Management Basics Glossary

Tuesday, 9/8/09: Project Management cont.

See slides from 9/3

Reading:
Chapter 5: Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects

• Read pp. 130-141, 144-152, and 157-160.
• Skim the The Time Value of Money section from pp. 141-144.
• Skim the Reviewing the Baseline Project Plan section from pp. 152–157.

Thursday, 9/10/0: Project Management cont.

Slides: Gantt, Network, PERT charts

Reading:
We're continuing with the readings from 9/3 and 9/8.

Tuesday, 9/15/09: Information Gathering

Slides: PM Stages and SDLC

Slides: Critical Path

Slides: Information Gathering

Reading:
Chapter 6: Determining System Requirements

• Read the entire chapter from pp. 170-200

Thursday, 9/17/09: Information Gathering cont.

See slides from 9/15: Information Gathering

Reading:
We're continuing with the reading from 9/15.

Tuesday, 9/22/09: Introduction to Modeling and Rich Pictures

Slides: Introduction to Modeling

Slides: Rich Picture

Slide: Laura's Way of Doing the Rich Picture In-Class Exercise

Reading:
Monk, A. & Howard, S. (1998). The rich picture: a tool for reasoning about work context. interactions, 5(2), 21-30.

Thursday, 9/24/09: Artifact Model

Slides: Artifact Model

Reading:
Beyer, H. & Holtzblatt, K. (1998). Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. [E-Reserves]

• Read pp. 102 – 107 (stop at The Cultural Model)

Homework:
Artifact model. Due 10/8/09.

Tuesday, 9/29/09: Data Flow Diagrams

Slides: Data Flow Diagrams (DFD)

Reading:
Chapter 7: Structuring System Process Requirements

• Read the entire chapter from pp. 206-233

Thursday, 10/1/09: Data Flow Diagrams cont.

See slides from 9/29: Data Flow Diagrams (DFD)

Reading:
We're continuing with the reading from 9/29.

Exam Review Questions assigned. Due 10/13/09.

Other Information for Your Interest:
Slides: Sequence Models (Slide 1 is the Beyer & Holtzblatt sequence model; slide 2 is the UML sequence model).
To learn more, look at:

• Beyer, H. & Holtzblatt, K. (1998). The Sequence Model. In Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers: pp. 96 - 101
• pp. 268 - 275 of the textbook for the UML sequence model

Tuesday, 10/6/09: Data Flow Diagrams cont.

Slides: Logical vs. Physical DFDS

Slides: Laura's Way of Doing the DFD In-Class Exercise

Reading:
We're continuing with the reading from 9/29.

DFD Practice Problem Answers

Homework:
Data flow diagrams. Due 10/27/09.

Thursday 10/8/09: Website Models

Artifact model homework due.

Slides: Web Models

Reading:
Rosenfeld, L. & Morville, P. (2002). Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. O'Reilly.

• Section 12.1 – 12.4, Design and Documentation

Tuesday, 10/13/09: Website Models cont.

See slides from 10/8: Web Models

Exam Review Questions due.

Reading:
We're continuing with the reading from 10/8.

Thursday, 10/15/09: Midterm Exam Review

Tuesday, 10/20/09: Midterm Exam

Thursday, 10/22/09: FALL BREAK – NO CLASS

Tuesday, 10/27/09: Structured English and Decision Tables

Slides: Structured English

Slides: Decision Tables

Data flow diagrams homework due.

Reading:
Chapter 8: Structuring System Logic Requirements

• Read the entire chapter from pp. 252-265

Homework:
Structured English. Due 11/5/09.

Thursday, 10/29/09: Entity Relationship Diagrams

Slides: Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD)

PDFs of Slides: Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD)

Reading:
Chapter 9: Structuring System Data Requirements readings:

• Read the entire chapter from pp. 283-315

Tuesday, 11/3/09: Entity Relationship Diagrams cont.

Reading:
We're continuing with the reading from 10/29.

See slides from 10/29: Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD)

PDFs of Slides: Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD)

Thursday, 11/5/09: Data Dictionaries and Prototyping

Structured English homework due.

Slides: Data Dictionaries

Slides: Prototyping

Reading:
Preece, J., Rogers, Y., & Sharp, H. (c2002). Interaction design : Beyond human-computer interaction. New York: John Wiley & Sons. [E-Reserves]

• Read pp. 240 – 249 (stop before Conceptual Design: Moving From Requirements to First Design)
• Read pp. 262 - 264 (stop before Physical Design: Getting Concrete)

Chapter 6: Determining System Requirements readings:

• Review pp. 189 – 190: Using Prototyping During Requirements Determination

Chapter 13: Finalizing Design Specification

• Read pp. 466 – 467: Prototyping, Evolutionary Prototyping, Throwaway Prototyping

Homework:
Entity relationship diagram. Due 11/24/09.

Tuesday, 11/10/09: Integrating and Finalizing Models into Design Specifications

Slides: Integrating and Finalizing

Reading:
Chapter 13: Finalizing Design Specification

• Read pp. 455 – 466 (stop at Prototyping) and 467 – 474 (start at Rapid Application Development)

Thursday, 11/12/09: Design Principles and Best Practices

Slides: Design Principles

Reading:
Te'eni, D., Carey, J. M., & Zhang, P. (c2007). Human computer interaction : Developing effective organizational information systems. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Inc. [E-Reserves]

• Read Design Principles and Guidelines on pp. 193 - 221.

Chapter 14 Designing Distributed and Internet System readings:

• Read pp. 494 – 496 (start at Other Site Consistency Issues and stop before Design Issues Related to Site Management)

Chapter 11 Designing Forms and Reports readings:

• Look at the definitions for form and report in the margins on p. 390.
• Look at these tables on their respective pages:
  • 11-2 on p. 391
  • 11-3 on p. 395
  • 11-4 on p. 397
  • 11-5 on p. 399
  • 11-7 on p. 401
• Read pp. 397 – 399, the section on Highlighting and Color Versus No Color
• Read from p. 405, Assessing Usability, to the end of the chapter on p. 410.

Tuesday, 11/17/09: System Architecture (Terrell Russell)

Reading:
Chapter 14: Designing Distributed and Internet Systems

• Read pp. 478 – 494 (stop at Other Site Consistency Issues) and 496 – 510.

Thursday, 11/19/09: Handicap Accessibility (Jason Morningstar)

Slides: Accessibility

Reading:

• Section 508: 508 Law
  http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?
  FuseAction=Content&ID=3
• Section 508: Summary of Section 508 Standards
  http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?
  FuseAction=Content&ID=11
• W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative: Introduction to Web Accessibility
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php
• W3C: List of Checkpoint for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/checkpoint-list.html
• Skim W3C: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
  
  

Tuesday, 11/24/09: RENCI Field Trip

Entity relationship diagram homework due.

Exam Review Questions assigned. Due 12/3/09.

Thursday, 11/26/09: THANKSGIVING – NO CLASS

Tuesday, 12/1/09: Security (Kevin Lanning)

Slides: Security

Reading:
Bowen, P., Hash, J., & Wilson, M. (2006). Information Security Handbook: A Guide for Managers. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

• Chapter 3: System Development Life Cycle, pp. 19 - 25
• Chapter 4: Awareness and Training, pp. 26 - 34

Thursday, 12/3/09: System Implementation

Exam Review Questions due.

Slides: Implementation

• Skim pp. 520-522 up to the section on Deliverables and Outcomes from Coding, Testing, and Installation.
• Read pp. 522-532 starting with the section Deliverables and Outcomes from Coding, Testing, and Installation and stopping before the section onInstallation
• Skim pp. 532-536 starting with the section onInstallation and stopping before the section onDocumenting the System
• Read pp. 536-553 starting withthe section on Documenting the System and finishing the chapter.

Tuesday, 12/8/09: FINAL EXAM REVIEW

According to the Registrar's schedule, our final exam will be 12/18/09 at 12:00pm.

Exam Review Questions