Information Systems Analysis
Current Events Discussions and Announcements
 The final exam
Mr. Craft's Presentation
Five Inspiring Social Design Pioneers
Start Designing your Life
Humor in Prototyping
Secrets of Success
Feasibility
- Random Thoughts on Project Management
- Overview of Issues
- Feasibility
- To learn more about interacting with clients, read the article Know Thy Client
- Political Considerations in Requirements Analysis
- Managing Customer Expectations
- Screening Feasibility Issues
- Project Mix
- VIDEO: Roman Fountains
- VIDEO: Brydon vs. Not Brydon
(11/27/12)
 Term Papers
- Scope Creep Management
- Managing Information Systems Projects
- Requirement Elicitation Techniques
- IS Risk Analysis
- Zachman Framework using Information Systems Planning
- CMMI
- Analysis techniques for agile software development
- Unspoken Requirements: Eliciting Unconscious Knowledge
- Methodologies
Creativity in design
Two nice guidelines for Questionnaire Development and more questionnaire development.
System Security Issues
- The best Practices for Secure Software Development
- More about Building Secure Software
Prototyping
- Introduction of Prototyping
- An analogy: Prototyping Star Wars Figures as an example of how different kinds of prototypes are used to answer different kinds of questions
- Lessons Learned
- Variations in interpretation of specifications (requires Power point: you must "run show" and turn on speakers to appreciate)
- Examples
- An example of how prototyping can be used to elicit user feedback: this example is replicated here for you to consider as a way of doing prototyping, and does not function
- The Analysis and Prototyping of Effective Graphical User Interfaces
(11/8/12)
Paper Prototyping
- The Paper Prototyping Website
- Paper Prototyping
- What is Paper Prototyping?
- Paper Prototyping: Getting User Data Before You Code
- How do we decide if we should use paper?
- Five Paper Prototyping Tips
- Checklist: Working Interface or Paper Prototype
- Paper Prototyping Methods
- Six Signs that you Should Use Paper Prototyping
- Pros and Cons of Paper Prototyping
- Using Paper Prototypes to Manage Risk
- Examples
- More References
- Images of Paper Prototyping
- Hammail Paper Prototyping
- Usability Testing with Paper Prototyping
- Paper Prototyping Testing
(11/8/12)
The Project Management Talk.
Halloween IDEO-style.
Use Case Diagram for National Merchandising
Questionnaires and Interviews
- Traditional Methods of Defining Requirements
- Why Interview?
- Introduction to Interviews
- Interview Content
- Be careful about jargon!
- VIDEO: IT Systems Analyst - Plan the Interview
- VIDEO: IT Systems Analyst - Conduct Interview
- Fables about Interviewing
- The King's Companion
- The Kingdom of Beal
(10/25/12)
The Secret Phrase That Sparks Creative Solutions.
More on Creativity
- The Stairs Problem
- Step up to the world's coolest staircases
- How to be Creative
Bill Moggridge, influential designer, and human centered design.
The solution to the National Merchandising Case.
What Great Leaders Know About Designing for Impact; Design from the Clinton Global Initiative
All groups must provide a progress report on their wikis each week. In addition, each person must complete a
Rating Sheet each week.
Our IDEO video notes
The Standish Reports
- Standish Group Report: Chaos
- Resolution of Projects
- Resolution of Projects, 1994-2004
- Cost Overruns
- Cost Overruns, 1994-2004
- Top Ten Reasons for Success
- CHAOS Report: 1994
- Glass, Robert L. The Standish Report: Does It Really Describe a Software Crisis?, Communications of the ACM, 49(8), August, 2006, pp. 15-16.
- Jørgensen, Magne and Kjetil Moløkken, How Large Are Software Cost Overruns? A Review of the 1994 CHAOS Report, Information and Software Technology, 48(4), April 2006.
- Standish view of Best Practices for SAD
- A humorous view of best practices. (View pdf Version)
(9/20/12)
Data Flow Diagrams
- Introduction to Data Flow Diagram (DFD)
- VIDEO: Drawing a Context Diagram
- VIDEO: Tools of Analysis (part 6 of 8) - Process & Data (DFD / Data Flow Diagram)
- Data Flow Diagram (DFD) Example (Context and Level 0 Diagrams)
- Data Flow Diagram (DFD) Example (Level 4 Explosion)
- An example
- A Tutorial for Using Visio to Draw Data Flow Diagrams
- VIDEO: Connect your Data to the Diagram
(9/20/12)
Data Dictionaries
- Data Dictionary
- More samples (9/20/12)
Object Oriented Analysis
- VIDEO: Use Cases
- Overview
- Use Case Notation (view as a pdf)
- An Example
- VIDEO: Creating Use Case Diagrams in Visio 2007
(9/20/12)
The semester (project) groups will be:
| Group A
Jenny Brunnert
Yanhui Long
John Powell
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Group B
Daniel Diecker
Spencer Schneidenbach
Xun Zhou
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Group C
Justin Cano
Ying Chen
Ken Spitzer
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(9/20/12)
More on Creativity
- The Stairs Problem
- Step up to the world's coolest staircases
- How to be Creative
(09/13/12)
More on the Systems Analysis Process: Getting to the right idea (09/13/12)
An overview of Methodologies (09/13/12)
Some information about Methodologies
- Software Development Life Cycle (09/13/12)
- Cost of Software
- A Comparison of Methodologies
- The Life Cycle
- Application Lifecycle Management
(9/13/12)
Teams
- Launching a Cooperative Learning Team
- Characteristics of Successful Teams
- The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0)
- Skills Associated with the SDLC
- Winning Project Teams
- Importance of Group Members
(09/13/12)
Information
- Measures of the value of information
- alternate syllabus (an example of data, not information)
- Information Comparison (View pdf version)
- Building Blocks of IS
(9/6/12)
Please complete this service learning survey.
We will break into groups and look
at some creativity exercises today.
- A man walked into a bar and asked the barman for a glass of water. They had never met before. The barman
pulled a gun from under the counter and pointed it at the man. The man said "Thank you" and walked out. Why
should that be so?
- Two brothers were having a drink in a bar. Suddenly one of the brothers got into a heated argument with the
barman. He pulled out a knife and, despite his brother's attempts to stop him, stabbed the barman in the chest. At
the trial, he was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and grievous bodily harm. At the end of the trial, the
judge said, "You have been found guilty of a vicious crime. However, I have no choice but to set you free." Why
should that be so?
- A traveler came to a small town. He had never visited it before, he knew no one there, and knew nothing about the
town or its inhabitants. He needed a haircut. There happened to be two barbershops close to each other on the
main thoroughfare -- the only barbershops in town. The man studied each of them with care. One shop was very
neat and tidy. Everything about it was smart. The barber was sweeping away the last traces of hair from the floor
while waiting for his next customer. The other barber's shop was very untidy. Everything looked rather run down
and ramshackle. The scruffy looking barber within was lolling on a chair waiting for his next customer. Both shops
charged the same amount for a haircut. After careful consideration, the traveler decided to go to the scruffy barber
for his haircut. Why?
(9/6/12)
Creativity and Systems Analysis
- The Future of Design is Human-Centered
- An interview with Tim Brown, CEO of IDE-O
- Tim Brown - From Design to Design Thinking
- Stanford Design Thinking Process
- Sustainability -- Part 1
- Sustainability -- Part 2
- Sustainability -- Part 3
- The Ten Most Innovative Companies In America
- IDE-O comes to St. Louis
- IDE-O's Website
(9/6/12)
Ackoff Center for the Advancement of Systems Approaches
A Systemic Perspective from the Systemic Perspective Series.
- Evolution of Systems Thinking
- Systemic Perspective
- Habits of a Systems Thinker
- Systems Thinking in Schools
- System Boundaries
- System Perspective Intent
- Health Care as an Example
(8/23/12)
What IT Managers Can Learn From The Failure Of A British IT Project
Systems and Systems Thinking
- Definition of a System
- A system definition courtesy of the Pentagon. This is the actual image used by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, to portray the complexity of American military strategy.
- Horizonwatching: A Smarter Planet --- aka a system!
- Systems and Systems Thinking
- Dr. Ackoff talk about his views of thinking, check out his YouTube video, Exploring Systems Thinking. See Part 2 and Part 3.
(8/23/12)
Systems Analysis
- What Does A Systems Analyst Really Do?
- What is Systems Analysis
- Systems Development Life Cycle
- Process v. Data Orientation
- Different Types of Systems
- Stage Deliverables
- Deliverables
- More about Deliverables
- Six 'Soft Skills' Every Analyst Needs to Know
- Agile Methods
- Soft Systems Methods
- Benefits of Systems Analysis
- Cost of software repair by lifecycle stage
- unintended consequences in systems analysis
(8/23/12)
An example consultant's analysis report: Strider and Cline evaluate UM's implementation of PeopleSoft. (8/23/12)
The previous edition of your textbook had a chapter entitled "Succeeding as a Systems Analyst." It is available here with permission of the publisher. (8/23/12)
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