Faculty Contact Information:
Phone: +49 (0) 8171 32035
Email: jrugg@faculty.ed.umuc.edu (preferred method) | |
Consultation:
| 30 minutes before and after each class session and by appointment. | |
Required Texts and Readings:
| Satzinger, J., Jackson, R., and Burd, S. (2004). Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World (3rd ed.). Boston: Course Technology. In addition, a case tool will be utilized. | |
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. | |
Recommended Journals:
| 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. | |
Course Description:
| 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. | |
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 | |
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 | |
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. | |
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.
Midterm Exam: The mid term exam will be comprehensive covering the chapters discussed to date.
Final Exam: The final exam will be comprehensive covering all assigned chapters.
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.
Important note: Resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC, UMUC-Europe or BSU), partially or in its entirety, is not acceptable in this course and will result in an automatic failure on the assignment.
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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 (28 - 29 August 2004):
Introductions
Review of syllabus
Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements
Orientation to subject
Chapters 1 - 5
Second weekend (12 September 2004):
Project Proposals Due
Chapters 6 - 8
Midterm Exam (take home)
Third weekend (25 - 26 September 2004):
Chapters 9 - 13
Fourth weekend (9 - 10 October):
Chapters 14 - 15
Project Presentations
Final Exam (in class) | |
Academic Policies:
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The University has a license agreement with Turnitin.com, a service that helps prevent plagiarism from internet resources. I may be using this service in this class by either requiring students to submit their papers electronically to Turnitin.com or by submitting questionable text on behalf of a student. If you or I submit part or all of your paper, it will be stored by Turnitin.com in their database throughout the term of the University's contract with Turnitin.com. If you object to this temporary storage of your paper, you must let me know no later than two weeks after the start of this class. Please Note: If you object to the storage of your paper on Turnitin.com, I may utilize other services to check your work for plagiarism The official university policy on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml. Section I.C. states: "Faculty may determine if the resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC), partially or in its entirety, is acceptable when assigning a grade on that piece of course work. Faculty must provide this information in their written syllabi. If the resubmission of course work is deemed to be unacceptable, a charge may not be brought under this Policy and will be handled as indicated in the written syllabi."
Please refer to Description of Course Requirements for specific information on how resubmissions will be treated in this course and to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center. | |
Faculty Bio:
I was born and raised in the Great State of Wisconsin and joined the U.S. Air Force in 1974. I received my Bachelor of Science Degree in Meteorology from Texas A&M University in 1987 and my Master of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems from Boston University in 1992. I retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1998. I am currently employed as a Development Manager and Senior Software Engineer for a multi-national firm in Germany.
Computer Background. I started writing computer programs for mainframe computers using the FORTRAN computer language in 1985. These programs dealt mainly with atmospheric and aerodynamic models. I moved to writing programs for IBM compatible computers using PASCAL, C, and ADA computer languages in 1988. During my 24 year career in the U.S. Air Force I spent a great deal of time in integrating microcomputers as replacements for aging teletype machines on the worldwide Automated Weather Network. I also worked at the Automated Weather Network main switching hub routing data packets over the worldwide weather data exchange network using various protocols and transmission capabilities.
I started teaching evening courses part time for Park College in 1992
and joined the UMUC - Europe staff in the Fall of 1993. Since then I
have taught just about every under graduate programming course offered my UMUC plus a few side diversions in networking protocols. I started teaching graduate courses for UMUC - Europe in the Spring 2002.
I currently program for all Win32 environment plus Linux and Mac OS X. My recent projects involved Windows NT security and profile setup,
enhancing and maintaining a proprietary script language to record and
playback routine administrative tasks and application installation
routines over a LAN. I am currently working on a set of client / server programs, using Java, http and XML, to remotely configure and install software on a client work station running Windows, Linux Mac OS X or Solaris. | |