Faculty Contact Information:
Phone: +49 (0) 6142 405532
Fax: +49 (0) 6142 405 86 532
email: Fred.Deeter@Honeywell.com (preferred method)
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Consultation:
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One hour after class or by appointment.
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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%
Grades are allocated as follows:
Class Participation: 10%
Project: 30%
Mid term Exam: 30%
Final Exam: 30%
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.
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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.
Project: This is a team assignment of no more than 4 students, who will undertake a limited in-scope design problem. There are some candidate projects in the test and the instructor will consider proposals by the team, so check around for a problem that needs a ‘systems solution’ and that can be completed in six weeks or less. Please submit a no more than one-page proposal at the beginning of the 3rd class session (see schedule).
The project is to include, at a minimum, the following deliverables:
· Project Plan
· Requirements Document
· Design Documents: Context and Data Flow Diagram, Entity Relationship Diagram, Use Case Diagram, and Sequence Diagram
· Implementation Planning: Event-Response, Test Plan, and Implementation Plan
· Financial Planning: ROI
Your team will make a 10 – 15 minute presentation of the project to the Steering Committee (your classmates) during the last class weekend. Please turn in your documentation to the instructor before presenting your material.
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Course Schedule:
This schedule presents 16 units or modules, with each unit corresponding to a regular three-hour weekday meeting, a half-day on weekends, or a full week of DE.
First weekend:
Introductions
Review of syllabus
Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements
Orientation to subject
Chapters 1 - 5
Second weekend:
Project Proposals Due
Chapters 6 - 8
Midterm Exam
Third weekend:
Chapters 9 - 13
Fourth weekend:
Chapters 14 - 15
Project Presentations
Final Exam
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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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Fred Deeter joined the UMUC faculty in April, 2000 and currently serves as Associate Professor of Information Technology. He has more than eight years of college/university-level teaching experience, including: Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont; University of Maryland in Kunsan, Korea; Manatee Community College in Bradenton, Florida; and Western International University in Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Deeter’s IT experience includes 20 years in commercial and DOD information systems as a Director of Information Technology, Operations Manager, Project Manager, Consultant, and Systems Analyst. He holds an MS in Computer Information Systems from Boston University and is presently Director of Information Technology for Honeywell Aerospace, Europe, Mideast, and Africa (EMEA) and is located in Raunheim, Germany.
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