Welcome to the Online Learning Centre for Information Systems Development: methodologies, techniques and tools 4th edition

Information Systems Development by David Avison and Guy Fitzgerald is the best selling text in the area and is regarded by lecturers and students worldwide as a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the issues of information systems development.

It has been adopted as the key text for many information systems, business and management, and computer science courses. The book has seven parts which relate to the Information Systems Development Context, the Systems Development Lifecycle, Themes of Systems Development, Techniques, Methodologies, Tools and Toolsets and finally Issues and Frameworks. This structure enables flexible use, either sequentially or by selecting sections or chapters to fit the specific needs of particular courses and favoured approaches.

Offering comprehensive coverage from traditional approaches through to the most recent agile methods, the book’s unique strength lies in its combination of descriptions and insight into methodologies, techniques and tools with the analysis of context, issues and real-world problems associated with information systems development. Retaining these existing strengths, the fourth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect progress in this fast-paced discipline and to include the authors’ recent experience of teaching with the text, as well as feedback from reviewers, colleagues and students. New and substantially revised material in this edition includes:

• The growing professional and ethical aspects and requirements of systems development
• The process and issues of requirements elicitation and capture
• Agile development methods and themes
• Component development
• Open source software
• Data warehousing and data mining
• Outsourcing and offshoring of systems development
• Discussions of the importance the context of methods and techniques
• The effect of framing influences in relation to development and techniques
• Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)

On this OLC you can find a host of information about the book, as well as some downloadable supplements lecturers.

THE LECTURER CENTRE

The Lecturer Centre for this title will contain a selection of downloadable material for lecturers who adopt Information Systems Development. The material (due in May 2006) will Lecturer Centre include:

• PowerPoint Slides
• Artwork from the textbook.

ACCESSING THE LECTURER CENTRE
The Lecturer Centre is for instructors and lecturers only and as such is password-protected. In order to request the password to access the Lecturer Centre, please fill in your details on the request password page. A McGraw-Hill representative will contact you in due course.

REQUEST LECTURER COPY
If you are considering using Information Systems Development for course adoption, you can request a complementary lecturer copy by clicking here and filling in the online form.

Please note that lecturer copies can only be sent to college or university addresses within Europe, the Middle East or Africa. Lecturers outside these regions should contact their respective International Office.

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