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Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, Roberta M. Roth
October 2005, John Wiley & Sons; 3 edition, Hardcover, 576 pages, ISBN 047172257X

Instructor-led, virtual, and self-paced training for Business Analysts What Do Business Analysts Do?
How to Elicit (Gather), Write, and Analyze Business Requirements
How to Initiate Requirements Gathering with User Stories
How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Processes
How to Model, Analyze, and Improve Business Data
All About Use Cases
How to Test an Application using Business Requirements
Writing Effective Business Requirement Statements
How to Elicit Business System Requirements
How to Write Effective Business Requirements
How to Manage Changing Requirements
How to Build Business Data Models
How to Define and Document Use Cases
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Put SAD into action!

You can't truly understand Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) by only reading about it; you have to do it. In Systems Analysis and Design, Third Edition, Dennis, Wixom, and Roth offer a hands-on approach to actually doing SAD. Building on their experience as professional systems analysts and award-winning teachers, these three authors capture the experience of actually developing and analyzing systems. They focus on the core set of skills that all analysts must possess--from gathering requirements and modeling business needs, to creating blueprints for how the system should be built.

Features
* New and expanded coverage, including expanded coverage of functional and nonfunctional requirements; new event-action lists; a new extended example of process modeling and data modeling; expanded discussion of the use and interpretation of the weighted alternative matrix as well as RFPs, RFI, and RFQs; a new emphasis on the Migration Plan; and new coverage of business contingency planning during implementation.
* Focus on doing SAD. After presenting the how and what of each major technique, the text guides you through practice problems and invites you to use the technique in a project.
* Project-based approach. Topics are presented in the order in which an analyst would encounter them in a typical project.
* Real-life examples include a running case, which serves as a template that you can apply to your own work, and Concepts in Action examples that describe how real companies succeeded (and failed) in performing SAD activities.
* Object-oriented concepts and techniques are included throughout the book, and a final chapter focuses on the major elements of UML. Coverage is updated to reflect the innovations of UML Version 2.0.
* Student Website includes hands-on exercises, templates for project deliverables, PowerPoint slides, and relevant Internet links.
 
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Preface.

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN.

Introduction.

The Systems Development Life Cycle.

Systems Development Methodologies.

Project Team Skills and Roles.

Summary.

PART ONE: PLANNING PHASE.

CHAPTER 2. PROJECT INITIATION.

Introduction.

Project Identification.

Feasibility Analysis.

Project Selection.

Summary.

CHAPTER 3. PROJECT MANAGEMENT.

Introduction.

Identifying Project Size.

Creating and Managing the Workplan.

Staffing the Project.

Coordinating Project Activities.

Applying in Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

PART TWO: ANALYSIS PHASE.

CHAPTER 4. REQUIREMENTS DETERMINATION.

Introduction.

Requirements Determination.

Requirements Analysis Techniques.

Requirements-Gathering Techniques.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 5. USE CASE ANALYSIS.

Introduction.

Use Cases.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 6. PROCESS MODELING.

Introduction.

Data Flow Diagrams.

Creating Data Flow Diagrams.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

Appendix A: Process Modeling at Custom MetalWorks.

CHAPTER 7. DATA MODELING.

Introduction.

The Entity Relationship Diagram.

Creating an Entity Relationship Diagram.

Validating and ERD.

Summary.

Appendix A: Data Modeling at Custom MetalWorks.

PART THREE: DESIGN PHASE.

CHAPTER 8. MOVING INTO DESIGN.

Introduction.

Transition from Requirements to Design.

System Acquisition Strategies.

Influence on Acquisition Strategy.

Selecting an Acquisition Strategy.

Summary.

CHAPTER 9. ARCHITECTURE DESIGN.

Introduction.

Elements of an Architecture Design.

Creating an Architecture Design.

Hardware and Software Specification.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 10. USER INTERFACE DESIGN.

Introduction.

Principles for User Interface Design.

User Interface Design Process.

Navigation Design.

Input Design.

Output Design.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selection.

Summary.

CHAPTER 11. PROGRAM DESIGN.

Introduction.

Moving from Logical to Physical Process Models.

Designing Programs.

Structure Chart.

Program Specification.

Summary.

CHAPTER 12. DATA STORAGE DESIGN.

Introduction.

Data Storage Formats.

Moving from Logical to Physical Data Models.

Optimizing Data Storage.

Summary.

PART FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION PHASE.

CHAPTER 13. MOVING INTO IMPLEMENTATION.

Introduction.

Managing the Programming Phase.

Testing.

Developing Documentation.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 14. TRANSITION TO THE NEW SYSTEM.

Introduction.

Making the Transition to the New System.

The Migration Plan.

Postimplementation Activities.

Applying the Concepts at CD Selections.

Summary.

CHAPTER 15. THE MOVEMENT TO OBJECTS.

Introduction.

Basic Characteristics of Object-Oriented Systems.

Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design.

Unified Modeling Language Version 2.0.

Use Case Diagram.

Class Diagram.

Sequence Diagram.

Behavioral State Machine Diagram.

Summary.

Index.

 
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Requirements
  Business Rules
Prototyping
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Definition
Requirements Documentation
Requirements Engineering
Requirements Management
Requirements Traceability
User Interfaces
Miscellaneous
Requirements Validation
  Acceptance Testing
Test Cases
Test Data Engineering
Test Planning
Testing Tools
Business Process Modeling (BPM)
  Data Flow Diagrams
Decision Tables
Process Analysis
Process Improvement (BPI)
Process Models
Facilitation
  Conducting Meetings
JAD
Miscellaneous
Data Analysis
  Data Models
Miscellaneous
NEW RELEASES
Business Systems Analysis
Best Practices
Interviewing Techniques
Methodologies
Problem Analysis
Request for Proposal (RFP)
Requirements Elicitation
Task Analysis
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Use Cases
Workflow Analysis
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