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Management Information Systems: Solving Business Problems with Information Technology, 3/e
Gerald V. Post, University of the Pacific
David L. Anderson, DePaul U/McGowan Center
Systems Development

Chapter Outline


  1. Overview
  2. Introduction
  3. Building Information Systems
    1. Custom Programming
    2. Outsourcing and Contract Programmers
    3. Assemble Applications from Components
    4. Purchase an External Solution
  4. Systems Development Life Cycle
    1. The Need for Control
    2. Introduction to SDLC
    3. Feasibility and Planning
    4. Systems Analysis
    5. Systems Design
    6. Systems Implementation
    7. Maintenance
    8. Evaluation
    9. Strengths and Weaknesses of SDLC
  5. Alternatives to SDLC
    1. Prototyping
    2. Developing Systems Requires Teamwork: JAD and RAD
    3. Extreme Programming
    4. End-User Development
  6. Analyzing Systems
  7. Process Analysis
    1. Input, Process, Output
    2. Divide and Conquer
    3. Goals and Objectives
    4. Diagramming Systems
    5. Summary: How Do You Create a DFD?
  8. Object-Oriented Design
    1. Properties and Functions
    2. Object Hierarchies
    3. Events
    4. Object-Oriented and Event-Driven Development
  9. Summary
  10. Key Words
  11. Website References
  12. Additional Reading
  13. Review Questions
  14. Exercises
  15. Cases: Government Agencies
  16. Appendix: Visual Basic
    1. Programming Logic
    2. Computations, Variables, and Functions
    3. Conditions
    4. Loops
    5. Input and Output
    6. Visual Basic Example in Excel
    7. Exercises




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