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Systems Analysis and Design, 5th Edition

Alan Dennis
January 2012, ©2012
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The 5th Edition of Systems Analysis and Design continues to offer a hands-on approach to SA&D while focusing on the core set of skills that all analysts must possess.  Building on their experience as professional systems analysts and award-winning teachers, authors Dennis, Wixom, and Roth capture the experience of developing and analyzing systems in a way that students can understand and apply.

With Systems Analysis and Design, 5th Edition, students will leave the course with experience that is a rich foundation for further work as a systems analyst.

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Table of Contents
Preface v

PART ONE PLANNING PHASE 3

CHAPTER 1 THE SYSTEMS ANALYST AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT 5

CHAPTER 2 PROJECT SELECTION AND MANAGEMENT 45

PART TWO ANALYSIS PHASE 99

CHAPTER 3 REQUIREMENTS DETERMINATION 101

CHAPTER 4 USE CASE ANALYSIS 147

CHAPTER 5 PROCESS MODELING 183

CHAPTER 6 DATA MODELING 223

PART THREE DESIGN PHASE 257

CHAPTER 7 MOVING INTO DESIGN 259

CHAPTER 8 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN 281

CHAPTER 9 USER INTERFACE DESIGN 313

CHAPTER 10 PROGRAM DESIGN 365

CHAPTER 11 DATA STORAGE DESIGN 405

PART FOUR IMPLEMENTATION PHASE 443

CHAPTER 12 MOVING INTO IMPLEMENTATION 445

CHAPTER 13 TRANSITION TO THE NEW SYSTEM 471

CHAPTER 14 THE MOVEMENT TO OBJECTS 503

New To This Edition
•       Extensive new content including BPM and BPR, agile development, and more.
•       A more rigorous and thorough treatment of Requirements Determination and Use Case Analysis.
•       A new continuing example integrated in chapters 4, 5, and 6 introduces how to read use cases, process models, and data models in a simple, focused way. 
•       New Spotlight on Ethics features provide timely and real ethical dilemmas that confront systems analysts. 
•       Many new Concepts in Action boxes provide updated, real-world illustrations of the textbook content.
Hallmark Features
•       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-world focus with many examples, several running cases which serve as templates that students can apply to their own work, and Concepts in Action examples that describe how real companies succeeded (and failed) in performing SAD activities.
•       Provides a structured approach to SAD while also integrating object-oriented techniques as appropriate, for example, the development of use cases is presented as the first step in process modeling.  In addition, a final chapter on the major elements of UML 2.0 can be used as an introduction to OO SAD.

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Systems Analysis and Design, 5th Edition
by Alan Dennis
ISBN 978-1-118-05762-9
January 2012, ©2012
Hardcover, 592 pages
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