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Business Analysis and System Design
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Relevant Links
- 1712 Practice Quiz
- Old Testament | New Testament [Notes from Fall 2024]
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Instructor Specifics
Up to date as of Winter 2025.
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Maryam Khezrzadeh
Email: [email protected]
Office Location: SW2-363
Office Hours: On Learning Hub
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Grading Matrix
^1Exams for this course are NOT cumulative. E.g.; The final only covers the second half of the course.
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Textbooks
- [Required] (Dennis) Dennis, Alan, Barbara Wixom, Roberta Roth. Systems Analysis and Design, 8th Edition. Wiley, 2021.
- Ryan Singer, Shape Up
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Course Description
Business Analysis and Systems Design is the study of concepts, processes and tools that professionals use to plan and develop information systems to industry standards. Students learn how to ask implicit questions, to create and document communication plans and to make better decisions prior to creating a software system. Beginning with an introduction to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), students work in teams to initiate the system process, analyze problems, discover requirements and create a logical design. Topics include: techniques used in the discovery of business requirements, traditional approaches to data and process modelling, entity-relationship diagrams, and an introduction to relational database normalization. Agile life cycles such as Scrum are also introduced and compared to more planned life cycles such as waterfall. By the end of this course, successful participants will be able to use tools and methods commonly used in industry to analyze, design, and implement information systems as confirmed by a term project.