Complete thesis - Murdoch University

Table 2.22: IS 2002.7 analysis and logical designDescriptionSCOPE This course examines the system development and modification process. Itemphasizes the factors for effective communication and integration with usersand user systems. It encourages interpersonal skill development with clients,users, team members, and others associated with development, operation, andmaintenance of the system. Structured and object oriented analysis and design,use of modelling tools, adherence to methodological life cycle and projectmanagement standardsTOPICS Life cycle phases: requirements determination, logical design, physical design,and implementation planning; interpersonal skills, interviewing, presentationskills; group dynamics; risk and feasibility analysis; group-based approaches:project management, joint application development (JAD), and structuredwalkthroughs; structured versus object oriented methodologies; RAD, prototyping;database design; software package evaluation, acquisition, and integration;global and inter-organizational issues and system integration; professionalcode of ethicsDISCUSSIONStudents with the basic skills of information technology will learn to gatherinformation in order to identify problems to be solved. They will determinesystem requirements and a logical design for an information system. A projectof limited scope will be designed during this course. Students will investigatealternative solutions, and will determine feasibility of solutions. They willidentify value added by the completion of the system. Students will be exposedto methods to support each stage of the development process. While automatedtools are not a substitute for understanding of the processes involved, theymay be used to ensure that a particular methodology is used rigorously. Ifmanual methods are used, it is important to define the methodology thoroughly.Project management will be taught and used to control the team project.Team concepts including personal and interpersonal skills will be discussed andmonitored. Empowerment concepts will be used and measured. Schedulingand completing individual and group actions will be used to ensure projectmilestone completion5. advanced.For CC-IS, a survey of computing faculty in the United States was conducted to obtain dataon two areas related to the curriculum update. The first was to determine their current viewof the appropriate depth of mastery for each of the elements in the IS97 BoK. The secondwas to gather similar information for key skill areas identified within IS97. The primaryconclusions are summarised as:1. IS analysts have specific skills at approximately IS97 skill depth level 3 (the ability toUSE knowledge) in areas of ‘Interpersonal and Team Skills’, ‘Business Knowledge’,‘Organizational Process Development’ (including IS Systems Analysis and Design),‘Project Management’, ‘Database’, ‘Software Development’, ‘Web Programming’, and‘Systems Integration’86