Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World (with CourseMate Printed Access Card) [Hardcover]

John W. Satzinger (Author), Robert B. Jackson (Author), Stephen D. Burd (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1423902289 | ISBN-13: 978-1423902287 | Publication Date: March 28, 2008 | Edition: 5

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN A CHANGING WORLD teaches the conceptual technical and managerial foundations for systems analysis design and implementation, as well as project management principles for systems development projects. The fifth edition continues the book's popular format of teaching both approaches to systems analysis and design: the traditional (structured) and the object-oriented (OO). This new edition offers expanded coverage of the object-oriented approach to design in two newly formed chapters, with Chapter 11 concentrating on principles and Chapter 12 covering use case realizations in depth. New and enhanced coverage of project management also teaches important issues related to adaptive projects as well as the traditional predictive approach to projects. Added perspective is provided for students via the running case studies and "Best Practices" feature.

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About the Author

John Satzinger is a Professor in the Computer Information Systems department at Missouri State University. With more than 15 years of teaching and research experience at leading CIS and MIS university programs, Dr. Satzinger's interests and specialties include systems analysis and design, graphical user interface design, object-oriented development, and database and client-server development. He holds an MBA from Cal Poly University and earned his Ph.D. at the Claremont Graduate University.

Robert Jackson is a retired member of the faculty of the Information Systems Department at Brigham Young University. He has researched, published, and taught in the areas of object-oriented systems development, e-commerce, Web systems, project management, and information systems education. Dr. Jackson received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. He is currently self-employed as a principal in several new e-commerce ventures, where he gets to practice the analysis, design, and business principles contained in his textbooks.

Stephen Burd is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, where he has been teaching courses in management information systems, networks, databases, and hardware/software since 1984. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Baltimore, and his Ph.D. from Purdue University, and has authored more than seven top-selling textbooks for Course Technology. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Hardcover: 720 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology; 5 edition (March 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423902289
• ISBN-13: 978-1423902287
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.1 inches
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• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Systems Analysis and Design Rendered Incomprehensible, January 19, 2003

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Ryan D Jamieson (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World, Second Edition (Hardcover)

Speaking as an undergraduate, _Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World_ is not an easy read, and I found some parts (e.g., OO statechart diagrams) almost inaccessible despite my persistent and conscientious efforts to grasp the material given my little but solid background in OO programming. The authors know their field well, and it is evident they put much effort into writing this book. Yet the model-making approach they presented (notably in chapters 5, 6, 7, and 9) obscured rather than improved my understanding of software development. Perhaps I tend to be averse to graphical models of this kind. In any case, a good introductory object-oriented programming textbook covering Java or C++ is a better place to start to learn these ideas because without actually implementing program code, the models seem like "floating" abstractions.

I have two recommendations to the authors that might improve the average student's ability to understand the content, especially the treatment on modeling:

1. Make the writing style less academic and more conversational. A good example of an accessible and engaging presentation of otherwise "mundane" content is David Kelley's _The Art of Reasoning_ (I know it's a book on informal logic and not systems analysis and design, but there are many parallels between the subjects).

2. After a new concept is introduced, immediately provide exercises *with* ideal solutions at the back of the book. There are no solutions in this textbook and no student solution manual is available. Most students need to start out with many easy but progressively more challenging problems and build on that foundation in order to gain confidence in the discipline. Again, see the "Practice Quizzes" in David Kelley's _The Art of Reasoning_ as an example of a textbook that helps the student comprehend the material. After every significant section, Kelley includes many small exercises (with solutions) in order to test the student's understanding of the concepts or principles and to ensure the student has thoroughly absorbed the information before moving on to more complex knowledge. I stress that I am not recommending that the content be "dumbed down." What I am saying is that since systems analysis and design is difficult and requires much practice to master, it is the job of the teacher to build a bridge between the challenging but potentially graspable ideas and the students who fall short of brilliant. In other words, this book is in desperate need of many smaller, easier problems that progressively build up to the kind of arduous case studies that *are* included at the end of the chapters.

This is a good book if you have the aptitude and appetite for graphical model-making and some experience in programming. Yet I highly suspect there are better books out there on this topic for introductory students.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A crummy book, December 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World (Hardcover)

I agreed to teach Systems Analysis and accepted this text as it was the one already selected when I arrived on campus. Later I was told by the person who selected this text, "Your problem is that you believe what you read. I choose books to teach against." In other words, the person who originally selected this book thought that it was full of bunk and planned to use it as a foil for his wit and wisdom. Personally, I see no reason to force students to buy a book that you disagree with. Unfortunately, his assessment that the book is full of bunk is largely correct. If the book was mearly full of drivel it would be a better book than it is. Alas, it also overly long and confuses students. I would not recommend using this book. I will certainly never use it again.

18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Systems Analysis of Object Oriented and Component-Based, May 9, 2000

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Kevin Morris Marler (Allen, Texas USA http://oorad.com) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World (Hardcover)

I have worked as a systems analysis and project manager for over 26 years with the last 15 working with object oriented techniques and component-based systems. When asked by systems engineers which book to recommend, I always recommended Ivar Jacobson's "Object-Oriented Software Engineering, A Use Case Driven Approach" but now I am recommending John W. Satzinger, Robert Jackson, Stephen D. Burd's "Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World." When project managers facing object oriented projects asked, I recommended Steve McConnell's "Rapid Development, Taming Wild Software Schedules", now I am recommending "Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World." My only concern in that the title does not represent the level of object oriented and component-based systems engineering with all of the supporting topics that systems analysts and project managers need to be successful that are addressed from a systems development perspective. The diagrams are the most accurate that I have found in any object oriented or component book of late. From a systems engineering perspective this is the first book that adequately covers the differences between traditional methods and object orient with component methods. Sections like "The Traditional Approach to Requirements" are followed by chapters like "The Object-Oriented Approach to Requirements." This also illustrates how this book would do well for seasoned systems analysts and project managers who are trying to cover the depth of what they now need to learn to make the transition to object oriented and component-based systems analysis and design. After all of the object oriented methods books written that claimed to be from a systems analysts perspective but contained coding examples it is refreshing to find one that contains business examples instead. "Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World" is truly from a systems perspective. While some topics like knowledge management are not addressed directly, the material necessary to do the object oriented analysis and design work for deployments like data marts is indirectly addressed. In addition to my engineering degree, I have an MBA, "Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World" contains many case studies that would fit well into a master's level course while providing the analysis and design support that makes the lessons learned from these stories accessible to all. Of late, I have been teaching a lot of graduate level courses (http://oorad.com, my university support homepage) and I am going to work this into my classes on object oriented systems engineering and project management as a must.