The Information System Consultant's Handbook: Systems Analysis and Design

by William S. Davis (Editor), David C. Yen (Editor)

Overview

The Information System Consultant's Handbook familiarizes systems analysts, systems designers, and information systems consultants with underlying principles, specific documentation, and methodologies.
Corresponding to the primary stages in the systems development life cycle, the book divides into eight sections:

Principles

Information Gathering and Problem Definition

Project Planning and Project Management

Systems Analysis

Identifying Alternatives

Component Design

Testing and Implementation

Operation and Maintenance
Eighty-two chapters comprise the book, and each chapter covers a single tool, technique, set of principles, or methodology. The clear, concise narrative, supplemented with numerous illustrations and diagrams, makes the material accessible for readers - effectively outlining new and unfamiliar analysis and design topics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351835633
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/30/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	800
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

William S. Davis (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA) (Edited by) , David C. Yen (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA) (Edited by)

Table of Contents

Principles Information Gathering and Problem Definition Project Planning and Project Management Systems Analysis Identifying Alternatives Component Design Testing and Implementation Operation and Maintenance Index

Editorial Reviews

A reference for systems analysts and designers and information system consultants on underlying principles, specific documentation, and methodologies. Covers gathering information and solving problems, planning and managing projects, analyzing systems, identifying alternatives, designing components, and operation and maintenance. Considers such aspects as common tools and techniques, outsourcing or subcontracting development work, the year 2000 problem, the shift in analysis and design to end users, and effective communication techniques for programmers and other specialists. The glossary includes page references, but no guides to pronunciation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"…written in a readable style that should serve both experienced and beginning analysts. For the experienced analysts it will help maintain a firm grasp of those techniques and tools that are the mainstay of the system analyst…excellent review tool…For the beginner it provides a survey of major tools, techniques, principles and methodologies…chapters are organized in a way that makes it easy to compare the tools and methodologies, a major strength of the handbook."
—E-STREAMS, Vol. 3, No. 5

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