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| Systems Analysis & Design in a Changing World, Fourth Edition
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Author: John W. Satzinger, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen D.
Publisher: Course Technology
Release Date: 2006-02-16
ISBN-10: 1418836125
ISBN-13: 9781418836122
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Building on its continued success this text has been revised to provide the most comprehensive, balanced and up-to-date coverage of systems analysis and design available. The Fourth Edition maintains the dual focus on the concepts and techniques from both the traditional, structured approach and the object-oriented approach to systems development. Instructors have the flexibility to emphasize one approach over the other, or both, while referring to one integrated case study that runs through every chapter.
Professors, please don't use this book!
| Customer Rating: | | This book was used for a Systems Analysis class as part of a master's program in Information Technology Management. It's coverage is a mile wide, an inch deep and with little structure. It touches on object oriented concepts and UML, though not enough to understand either. About two weeks into the class I started using other books to fill in the numerous gaps in this one. Though I don't have another systems analysis book to recommend, there must be a better one then this! |
Doing the Right Things
| Customer Rating: | My company tries to operate on the principle of doing the right things instead of just doing what you are doing well.
The authors of this book do an excellent job of addressing the analysts role in business system development. Doing more work up front will reduce the customers costs and frustration. IT will appear more as a business partner than a necissary evil.
The addage "The cost of conformance is lower than the cost of non-conformance" is huge in business today. Getting the right IT projects into the pipeline and then doing them right gives you that conformance opportunity.
I highly recommend this book for any organization that wants to embed IT analysts into their buisiness units. The long term benefits of knowing you customer and becoming a partner are many fold. It really begins with trust and faith. Doing your homework on the analysis and design side is the first step. |
Great book
| Customer Rating: | | This is a great book for beginner. Has lots of info, and of course it was required for my course :-) |
Packed with disjointed and repetitive information!
| Customer Rating: | If you want to make the subject of Systems Analysis and Design appear to be more daunting than it really is, then read this book! There is no doubt that the authors know their subject, but they seem to have no idea of how to clearly explain the concepts. The real issue appears to be a "disconnection" between the author's knowledge and how that translates into a clear explanation for somebody who is new to this subject.
To explain this better, many concepts are introduced in early chapters, and then again in more detail in later chapters. Sounds logical right? Well, sometimes. What you find here is that you quickly become overwhelmed with briefly introduced concepts, acronyms, descriptions, foot-notes, side-notes, best practice notes, headings, subheadings, dot-points, highlighted-text, diagrams and tables (that often only make sense in subsequent pages), and most of all: repetition. Lots of repetition... Only to read about it all over again in later chapters.
They really have just thrown as much information into the book as they could, but with little thought put into making the subject flow (and make sense). Some concepts like the IE SDLC are explained in detail in chapter 2, but then you discover a LOT more information about IE in chapter 6! It's almost like the authors split the subjects between them and threw the book together without bothering to collaborate. Consequently the book could be half the size.
Given that the subject matter focuses heavily on the concept of "flow", I'm completely underwhelmed by the author's ability to introduce flow in their written explanations!
I'm using it with my course at the moment (not through choice), and I am finding myself using Google all the time now to supplement my understanding of the concepts in the book.
Don't buy it (unless you really have to). |
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