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Systems Analysis and Design, Fourth Edition

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I teach systems analysis courses, and this book is an excellent text for us. It is easy to read, well-researched, and describes current real-world thinking in this field. It has many good case studies, along with an on-line virtual company case study that is unique. I highly recommend this book.

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The book covers a broad spectrum of systems issues and is a good introduction for the aspiring systems analyst. Systems Analysis and Design would go well in a classroom setting as it does well to outline and explain the roles, environment, and tools of a systems analyst.

The book was written to help prepare the reader for the Master CIW Enterprise Developer certification exam (Database Specialist).

The text book was prescribed for the Course that I attended.
It is an excellent book! It is easy to read, got plenty of practical case studies, review questions, quality graphics, etc. The subject has been well researched and written in an easy to follow format.
I found the on-line sites useful and powerful. Plenty of referals, etc.
Excellent Book!!!

This is a very digestable text for an introductory class to software analysis and engineering. I particularly liked its parallel between traditional structured and OO analysis. It is very readable. My only criticism is that it should have had the discussion on CMM and other development models to set the tone earlier on the importance of this material to the industry.

Jabberwocky was easier to make sense of. The book is full of acronyms and uses them ad nauseam.
I don't believe that any organization can follow the procedures outlined in this book and expect to stay in business. Any person following the procedures outlined in this book would surely (and rightfully) be fired, they would never produce any thing but documentation and stick figures (product is important too!).
This book tries to cover a very broad range of tools and documentation options but lacks organization and depth, you come away knowing very little about many things.
This book is really very bad.