Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World (with CourseMate Printed Access Card)

by Stephen Burd, Robert B. Jackson, John W. Satzinger, et al.

Book Overview

System Analysis & design in a Changing world. Strayer University. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1423902289
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Course Technology
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Doing the Right Things

My company tries to operate on the principle of doing the right things instead of just doing what you are doing well. The authors of this book do an excellent job of addressing the analysts role in business system development. Doing more work up front will reduce the customers costs and frustration. IT will appear more as a business partner than a necissary evil. The addage "The cost of conformance is lower than the cost of non-conformance" is huge in business today. Getting the right IT projects into the pipeline and then doing them right gives you that conformance opportunity. I highly recommend this book for any organization that wants to embed IT analysts into their buisiness units. The long term benefits of knowing you customer and becoming a partner are many fold. It really begins with trust and faith. Doing your homework on the analysis and design side is the first step.

Great book

This is a great book for beginner. Has lots of info, and of course it was required for my course :-)

Great reference for methodologies/requirements gathering

This book covers the different methodologies and best practices used in project management and business gathering processes. It is a good reference for all levels.

keep this book for reference

I was introduced to this book during a Systems Analysis and Design class as part of a Master's Degree program. I was impressed with its thoroughness. Anyone serious about learning and maintaining about SDLC and techniques in systems analysis and design should keep this book.

For Systems Analysis of Object Oriented and Component-Based

I have worked as a systems analysis and project manager for over 26 years with the last 15 working with object oriented techniques and component-based systems. When asked by systems engineers which book to recommend, I always recommended Ivar Jacobson's "Object-Oriented Software Engineering, A Use Case Driven Approach" but now I am recommending John W. Satzinger, Robert Jackson, Stephen D. Burd's "Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World." When project managers facing object oriented projects asked, I recommended Steve McConnell's "Rapid Development, Taming Wild Software Schedules", now I am recommending "Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World." My only concern in that the title does not represent the level of object oriented and component-based systems engineering with all of the supporting topics that systems analysts and project managers need to be successful that are addressed from a systems development perspective. The diagrams are the most accurate that I have found in any object oriented or component book of late. From a systems engineering perspective this is the first book that adequately covers the differences between traditional methods and object orient with component methods. Sections like "The Traditional Approach to Requirements" are followed by chapters like "The Object-Oriented Approach to Requirements." This also illustrates how this book would do well for seasoned systems analysts and project managers who are trying to cover the depth of what they now need to learn to make the transition to object oriented and component-based systems analysis and design. After all of the object oriented methods books written that claimed to be from a systems analysts perspective but contained coding examples it is refreshing to find one that contains business examples instead. "Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World" is truly from a systems perspective. While some topics like knowledge management are not addressed directly, the material necessary to do the object oriented analysis and design work for deployments like data marts is indirectly addressed. In addition to my engineering degree, I have an MBA, "Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World" contains many case studies that would fit well into a master's level course while providing the analysis and design support that makes the lessons learned from these stories accessible to all. Of late, I have been teaching a lot of graduate level courses (http://oorad.com, my university support homepage) and I am going to work this into my classes on object oriented systems engineering and project management as a must.