Systems Analysis and Design with UML

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.

Hallmark Features

• Written in UML: The text takes a contemporary, object–oriented approach using UML.
• Focus on doing SAD: The text builds on the applied approach of Dennis & Wixom‘s best–selling SAD text. After presenting the how and what of each major technique, the text guides students through practice problems and then invites them to use the technique in a project.
• Rich examples of both success and failure: Concepts in Action boxes describe how real companies succeeded and failed in performing the activities in the chapters.
• Project approach: Each chapter focuses on a different step in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process. Topics are presented in the order in which they are encountered in a typical project.
• Outstanding author team: Dennis and Wixom draw on their experience as professional systems analysts. Co–author, David Tegarden, an OO expert, has worked with OO for over a decade and is a recognized OO expert in the IS community.
• A running case: This case threaded throughout the text helps students apply each concept they have learned.

 

New to this edition:

• Increased coverage of the Enhanced Unified Process throughout the text
• Additional figures/examples added along with explanatory text to address some of the more difficult concepts to learn
• Coverage of issues surrounding the Flat World
• All new Concepts in Action boxes with real–world examples
• Inclusion of Verification and Validation material throughout the text to improve the coverage of testing
• Increased material addressing global concerns throughout the text.
• More emphasis placed on the impact of nonfunctional requirements on the design
• A new section on cultural issues and technology

Text can be packaged with Visible Analyst CASE software for an added cost. Please contact your local Wiley Sales Representative for more information and ordering details.

From the back cover:

A modern, hands–on approach to doing SAD——in UML!

Get the core skills you need to actually do systems analysis and design with this highly practical, hands–on approach to SAD using UML! Authors Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, and David Tegarden guide you through each part of the SAD process, with clear explanations of what it is and how to implement it, along with detailed examples and exercises that allow you to practice what you‘ve learned.

Now updated to include UML Version 2.0 and revised, this Second Edition features a new chapter on the Unified Process, increased coverage of project management, and more examples.

Highlights

• Written in UML: The text takes a contemporary, object–oriented approach using UML.
• Focus on doing SAD: After presenting the how and what of each major technique, the text guides you through practice problems and then invites you to use the technique in a project.
• Rich examples of both success and failure: Concepts in Action boxes describe how real companies succeeded and failed in performing the activities in the chapters.
• Project approach: Each chapter focuses on a different step in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process. Topics are presented in the order in which they are encountered in a typical project.
• A running case: This case threaded throughout the text allows you to apply each concept you have learned.

––This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author:

Dr. Alan R. Dennis is a professor of internet systems at Indiana  University.  He has written over 60 journal articles and has published 4 books.  He is the senior editor for the MIS Quarterly and also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of MIS, Association for MIS, Computer Mediated Communication and the International Journal of e–Collaboration

 

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