MIS 720: Business Systems Development - Fall 1996

Class room: Enterprise Hall 174

Office no.: Enterprise Hall 237

Class time: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 - 11:45 p.m.

Office hours: Wednesday 3:00-6:00 p.m.

Office phone: 703-993-1788

Course Objectives

This course is designed to introduce the application of systematic methodologies and tools to designing and improving business process enabled by emerging information technologies. The focus of the course is on the basic principles and methodology of business process analysis and design for dramatic improvement. Information engineering methodology that enable organizations to plan and integrate business strategies with information systems through the development of an comprehensive enterprise models and information infrastructures, will be introduced in this class. Joint Application Design method which can be used to elicit business and information requirements from users will be discussed. Methods such as structured techniques, information engineering, object-oriented analysis and design will be discussed. Tools that support these tools will be presented. The organizational planning and strategies for implementing business process improvement and information engineering in an organization will be discussed.

Textbook:

Hoffer, J. A., George, J. F., & Valacich, J. S., Modern Systems Analysis and Design, The Benjamins Publishing Company, Inc., 1996. [MSAD]

Reference Materials

Academic Student Kit Methodology Series Composer 3, Texas Instruments, 1995.

Academic Student Kit Windows 3.1 Composer 3, Texas Instrument.

COURSE OUTLINE

Date	Topics	Reference/Note
Aug. 27, 29	Systems Development Environment Systems Analyss and Design Project Systems Analysts	MSAD-1~3, Appendix A
Sept. 3, 5	An Introduction to Information Engineering Applications, and systems development methods and tools IE: Basic concepts and principles IE: Life cycle Managing IS Projects	MSAD-4, 12
Sept. 10, 12	Information Strategy Planning (ISP) ISP Methods Information Systems Architecture Initiating and Planning Systems Development Project	MSAD-6, 7
Sept. 17*, 19	Business Area Analysis (BAA) Data Modeling - Introduction	MSAD-11
Sept. 24, 26	Data Modeling - Entity Relationship Model Entity relationship diagram	MSAD-15
Oct. 1, 3	Data Modeling Normalization Simplification of ER diagrams	MSAD-16, Appendix C
Oct. 8, 10	Joint Application Design (JAD) Prototyping	MSAD-8, Appendix B
Oct. 15	Columbus Recess
Oct. 17	*Mid Term Examination*
Oct. 22, 24	Process Modeling Activity hierarchy & activity dependency diagram Data flow diagram (DFD) & DFD for real-time systems State transition diagram	MASD-9~11
Oct. 29, 31	Input and Output Design Dialog Design Graphic User Interface	MSAD-13
Nov. 5, 7	Interactions Analysis Process action diagram Structured Design	MSAD-10, 17,
Nov. 12, 14	Business Systems Design Dialog Flow Diagram	MSAD-19~21
Nov. 19, 21	CASE Technology and Implementation	MSAD-5
Nov. 26	Designing Distributed Systems Object-Oriented Analysis and Design	MSAD-18, Appendix D
Dec. 3, 5	Presentation of Class Project
Dec. 12	*Final Examination* 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

*September 17, 1996 there is not class. You are asked to attend the PowerBuilder/Internet Seminar on that date (8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.) to find out more about technical issues involved in developing transaction processing systems on the Internet. The seminar will be held at Marriott Hotel at 5151 Pooks Hill Rd. Bethesda, MD 20814, Please register immediately at the following web site => http://www.powersoft.com/events/reg_pbi.html or call 1-800-395-3525

Grading

35% Mid Term Examination
35% Final Examination
30% Project (Documentation 10%, Technical Correctness 10%, Prototype 5%, Presentation 5%)

Project and Presentation

Students teams are assigned business design or information development projects. They work on real-world cases and interact with users to determine the systems requirements and create business and information systems models of the system. They will develop prototypes to demonstrate concepts of operations of their systems.

Deliverable of group projects:

Feasibility Study report

Problem statement

Scope of the project

Constraints

Preliminary Alternatives

Recommendations

Resource Requirements for The Project

Cost/Benefit Analysis

High Level Business Function and Functional Business Process Diagram

Subject Area Diagram

A List of Business Area

BAA Report

Definition of the Selected Business Area

Complete Data Model

Complete Process Model

Hardware and Software Infrastructure

Action Diagrams for Three Selected Elementary Processes

A list of Business systems

Design Report

Definition of the Selected Business System

Dialog Flow Diagram

Screens/Windows and Reports Design

User Interface Prototype

Implementation (Technical and Organizational) Plans