Faculty Contact Information:
Class dates: Weekends: Mar 27/28,April 17/18, May 11/2, 15/16
Time: 9.00 to 16.00.
Home Address:15 Wood Lane, Aspley Guise, Milton Keynes, MK17 8EJ, UK.
Email Address: R.J.Housden@open.ac.uk
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Consultation:
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Dr Housden will be available for consultation 30 minutes before and after each class meeting. He may be contacted by email or by telephone (01908 583488) most evenings.
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Required Texts and Readings:
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Satzinger, J., Jackson, R., and Burd, S. (2002). Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World (2nd ed.). Boston: Course Technology.
In addition, a case tool will be utilized.
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Supplementary Readings:
The standard for papers in the graduate program is the APA style. All participants in this course and all graduate INSS, MGMT, PUAD, and ECON courses should have a copy of the style guide:
American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition. Washington DC: Author.All graduate students should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library at http://www.umuc.edu/library/. The library contains a large number of full text academic journals that are free of charge and immediately available. The library homepage also contains a number of links related to improving students' research and writing skills.
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Recommended Journals:
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Publications of the various professional societies (such as ACM -- the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computing Society, and the various management professional societies) are strongly recommended. In addition, there are many trade journals (such as eWEEK) that MIS professionals should become familiar with, many of these being published both weekly and on-line.
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Course Description:
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3 semester hours credit. Prerequisites: Undergraduate statistics and quantitative methods, and either INSS 510, INSS 520, INSS 530, or permission of the Program Director. Provides an in-depth look at all phases of information systems development. Requirements acquisition methodologies are reviewed and evaluated with respect to different application areas. Logical design is reviewed and implementation issues are addressed. Data-centered as well as process-centered approaches to system design are reviewed. Particular design methodologies including structured design and object-oriented design are discussed. Life cycle as well as heuristic approaches to system development are examined and discussed. Organizational and behavioral issues with respect to information system development are examined. An analysis and design project will be required. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: INSS 540 or INSS 610.
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Course Goals:
Upon completion of the course, participants should understand and be able to describe/explain:
1. The systems development life cycle (SDLC)
2. The reasons for formal systems analysis and design
3. Ethical, organizational and behavioral issues
4. Non-traditional systems development
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Course Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course the student will be able to:
1. Compare and contrast methods for systems security and controls
2. Describe the processes and phases of IS development, and the deliverables associated with each phase of the SDLC
3. Distinguish methods for requirements acquisition
4. Justify the importance of structured logical analysis
5. Explain the difference between data centered and process centered methodologies
6. Compare and contrast conventional and object-oriented design methodologies
7. Discuss the steps involved in systems prototyping and Rapid Application Development
8. Design plans for systems implementation, operations and maintenance
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Grading Information:
Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:
A 92%
B 80 – 91%
C 70 – 79%
F Below 70%
Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F(a) is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion. Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog, available in your local Education Center or online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs.
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Course Requirements:
Graduate school at the masters level focuses on helping students obtain the education needed for success as professionals in their chosen fields. Thus, UMUC-Europe Graduate Programs and Bowie State University share the common goals of promoting excellence in academic scholarship through thoughtful inquiry and the skillful application of knowledge and theory for the betterment of society.
In order to maximize your graduate educational experience in general and this course in particular, you are required to:
10% - Participate in classroom discussions
30% - Write graduate level papers, complete graduate level
projects or case studies
10% - Orally/visually present prepared material
20% - Complete a Mid-term written examination
30% - Complete a Final written examination
The final grade for the course will be determined from the weighted sum of the percentage grades assigned for each of the examinations and project assignments.
For group work, the same grade will be awarded to each member of the group. Credit will be given for both content and clarity of written presentation.
Students are advised that the grade for work submitted after the due date without an accepted excuse, may be reduced.
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Description of Course Requirements:
Participate in classroom discussions: You are expected to come to class prepared to engage in all discussions in a professional and informed manner. Usually this requires two to three hours for every hour of a face-to-face class and approximately ten hours of preparation per week for a DE class.
Complete graduate level projects or programming assignments, write graduate level papers or case studies: You are required to conduct professional-level research, including appropriately citing works of others and avoiding plagiarism. Plan on committing approximately 150 hours over the duration of this course to producing professional level deliverables, to include programs, projects, papers, and/or case studies.
Orally/visually present prepared material: You are required to present your results in a professional manner. In a face-to-face course, this typically means an oral presentation accompanied by appropriate visual material. In a DE class, this means creating a visual/textual presentation for your instructor and classmates.
Complete one or more written examination(s): The examination process in this class will assist you in developing the writing and critical thinking skills necessary for successfully passing the comprehensive exam required of all graduate students. The examination questions used for this course will either be taken directly from past comprehensive exams or written as though to be included on a comprehensive exam.
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Course Schedule:
This schedule presents 16 units or modules, with each unit corresponding to a half-day on weekends.
1st weekend, March 27/28:
Text Chapters 1 - 4
Introductions, Review of syllabus, Clarification of goals,
objectives and requirements Orientation to subject
* Role of the Systems Analyst
- why is a formal approach necessary?
* Information Systems Planning and Management - the SDLC
* Approaches to Information Systems Development
* Investigating requirements; prototyping, JAD, reviews.
Individual assignment set
2nd Weekend, April 17/18: Systems Modeling,
Text Chapters 5 - 8
* Data Modeling
* Process Modeling
* Object Modeling
* Strategic alternatives and decisions
Individual assignment due, Group assignment set.
3rd Weekend, May 1/2: Systems Design and Construction
Text: Chapters 9 - 12
Mid-term exam. Saturday a.m.
* Designing the application architecture
* Database design
* Input/output design
* User interface design
First group assignment due
4th Weekend, May 15/16:
Text: Chapters 13 - 14
* RAD and component based development
* Packaged softwareSystems
* Implementation and Support
* Review of Project Management Issues: people, costs, quality
Course evaluations
Final exam. Sunday a.m.
Student presentations of projects
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Academic Policies:
Please refer to the UMUC - Europe Graduate Catalog, available online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs/index.html or from your local Education Center, for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
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Faculty Bio:
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Professor Housden is an Adjunct Professor of the UMUC. He has been a term appointed faculty member for the University of Maryland since 1985. He received his MA(Hons) in Mathematics and qualified teacher status in Mathematics from Cambridge University, an Academic Postgraduate Diploma in Numerical Analysis and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of London. He is a Chartered Information Systems Engineer and a Chartered Mathematician. His professional experience includes management consultancy and almost fifty years of teaching, curriculum development and professional accreditation. Until his retirement in 1997, he was a Professor of Computing at the Open University (UK), Dean and Director of Studies of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, and then Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Resources) with overall responsibility for all Open University resources: financial, human and physical, including responsibility for IS Strategy and IT Strategy. He is now an Emeritus Professor of the Open University.
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