ISYS 471 Intro Systems Analysis and Design 

Course Description: Development of an information system from the analysis of present information flow, system specifications and equipment selection to implementation. Emphasis on analysis of existing systems and design of new systems. Prerequisite: ISYS 373. 3 credits. Speaking Intensive

Course Objectives: The overall course objective is to provide students with the concepts and skills needed to analyze and design information systems. The course concentrates on the front-end of the systems development process; that is, the course only lightly touches on the design and development of computer programs and their testing and maintenance (although the instructor will work through some elements of the whole development process on your project).

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

- Describe the major alternative methodologies used in developing information systems and the considerations involved in choosing which methodology to use.

- Produce the requisite systems documentation at each point in the analysis and design of an information system, and to do so with clarity and completeness.

 -Analyze a business need for information and to develop an appropriate strategy to solve the problem and provide the required information service.

 -Prepare and use various information gathering techniques for eliciting user information requirements and system expectations.

 -Construct and interpret a variety of system description documents, including physical and logical data flow diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, Structured English, structure charts, and decision tables, as well as screen, form, and report layouts.

-Communicate effectively, in both written and oral forms, systems specifications, and to be persuasive in these presentations.

-Develop a personal plan for improving yourself to become a better systems professional or user/manager of a system, by understanding your own strengths and weaknesses and matching those with the critical success factors of a modern business manager.

While taking this class we have learned through out fourteen chapters what intro systems analysis and design entails and how it will help us with our future as and ISYS and Cyber Forensics Major. While taking this class we have had projects such as this Taskstream project and a final project with our groups. For my final project with my group we have decided to improve the Walk2Campus farmville web page and are addressing some of the issues they have as a website. This project will hopefully help us in learning what key aspects are needed for a web page and how to make them work more functionally.