Chapter 13 Information Systems Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation Chapter 13 deals with the final steps: design, implementation, and evaluation. Important topics such as prototyping and the use of CASE tools are described in these two chapters which also relate systems development to business processes reengineering. [ Update | Exercises | IT@Work ]

Update

Offshore... Way offshore.

Building software is extremely expensive, and the single major cost is labor. Programmers are expensive—at least they are in the U.S. That’s why many companies that build software are moving part of their operations offshore, to where labor costs are much lower than in the U.S. The problem is that writing code is not the same as many forms of manual labor. It requires special skills, not the least of which is a reasonable command of the English language—the language upon which virtually all programming languages are based. That’s why many software developers have chosen India--with relatively high literacy rates and low wages—as the site for their offshore operations.

In Bangalore, Wired Magazine’s Richard Rapaport examines the opportunities and challenges facing the Silicon Valley of India. In a related article, Asiaweek’s Arjuna Ranawana describes Asia’s new software entrepreneurs in Made in India.

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Exercises

1. Rapid Prototyping is becoming popular as a method for system development. Surf the Internet and find material on the topic, including real world case studies.
2. Surf the Internet to find information on the relationship between IS9000 and developing Internet and EC applications.
3. Surf the Internet to find information about the evaluation and maintenance of EC and Internet applications.

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