SAD+70-453

=Systems Analysis and Design=

70-453
Systems Analysis and Design is an elective MIS course that will be offered in the Spring semester 2010 on Carnegie Mellon's Qatar campus (10:30 - 11:50, Sundays and Tuesdays).

A brief course overview:
In this course you will learn how to specify, scope, and design information systems that meet real business needs. There are two fundamental questions that we will address in the course: The process of answering the first question is systems analysis and the process of answering the second question in systems design. When you have successfully completed this course, you will understand and be able to apply: You will gain experience working with these tools and concepts through lectures, discussion, in-class exercises and team-based systems analysis and design assignments.
 * What information system, specifically, should we build?
 * How, specifically, should we structure our system?
 * Standard systems development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies
 * Common techniques for gathering systems requirements, including Use Cases
 * Basic project management tools and techniques
 * Fundamental object-oriented concepts and their application through UML for:
 * Requirements gathering
 * Functional modeling
 * Structural modeling
 * Behavioral modeling
 * Basic data modeling skills with Entity-Relationship Modeling
 * Basic architecture-level system design concepts

Course objectives, structure, schedule, and assignments are described in the attached syllabus (for the Fall 2007 offering of the course).

Fall 2007 syllabus:

A sample assignment from the course: