Product Description

Complex, challenging, and stimulating, this book addresses information system analysis and design; it is full of information that shows the organizational process that a team of business and systems professionals use to develop and maintain computer-based information systems. It stresses the importance of responding to and anticipating problems through innovative uses of information technology. The book provides an excellent foundation for systems development, then goes on to making the business case, analysis, design, implementation and maintenance. For future systems analysts, or for those information technology that need a great resource for implementing new ideas and strategies for success.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28481 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 648 pages

Customer Reviews

Good Book for Basic Understanding of System Analysis
I used this book for IST 232 at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) for one of their online classes. We only used a few chapters for this course (there is a LOT of information in this book).

Of the chapters we used, the authors did a very good job of explaining the basics of system analysis and design. Many diagrams/figures were given, showing both correct and incorrect notations.

I would recommend this book, though students generally don't have the approval authority for textbooks in a class.

A Mixed Bag...
The difficult part of systems analysis is that you can really only learn it by doing it... and that pretty much means that a book can only provide theoretical information on this topic. The book concentrates on the SDLC model and discusses other approaches whenever appropriate.

It can be boiled down to this: Structured analysis and design = good.

These are the kinds of structured analyses:
SDLC (Waterfall)
JAD
Prototyping
Agile

The solution: Pick the one that most closely aligns with the goals and duration and scope of the project.

The book does go into some interesting historical information relating to these models, and in general--the depth of detail it goes into in some of the basic analytical processes such as DFDs and related diagramming are excellent for a neophyte coming into the field; but getting them right isn't something this book (or any book) can really teach you. Systems analysis is a professional practice that has its own working knowledge--just like medicine or engineering--and most of it can't be learned from a textbook.

This isn't a horrible book, but I think it would benefit more by taking a single case study and differentiating the processes it discusses as it walks through the whole book. This book also has a very dry delivery.

Too general to be a learning material
Just like most books out there, it is TOO GENERAL to learn anything from this book. Only a few good information in this book to actually learn something from. Too general because it talks ALOT about things we already know. For example, it talks alot about we need to make information system because it is good for a company! I mean, Hello no one makes a information system that is BAD for a company! And do we really need to read 100 words to know that information system we are trying to build needs to be good for a company!!!??? Even my sister`s daughter who is only 3 years old knows that! This is the problem with not just only this book but all other books out there that they talk ALOT, hundreds of pages about things we already know or things we can know with a little effort!

I really hope that authors make more efforts to write more things that we can ACTUALLY LEARN from and NOT WAISTING OUR TIME and not pretending like they are proving new information.