BSA 411 (System Analysis Methodologies) Week 1-5 Course Material

BSA 411 (System Analysis Methodologies)

Week 1

Week 1 DQ 1

What impact does lack of previous research have on the analysis of a business situation?

Week 1 DQ 2

What are examples of being unrealistic in a business systems analysis?

Week 1 DQ 3

How does ignorance of corporate culture impact the analysis of a business situation?

Week 1 DQ 4

 Based on Woodhouse’s (2007) article, expand by discussing the topic of the interaction of IT strategy and corporate culture.

Week 1 DQ 5

Based on Dupius, Lee, and Kim’s (2007) article, describes how you would set up a good selection criterion to be sure that your system analysts will be effective. 

Week 2

Week 2 DQ 1

What is a major motivation for reverse engineering?

Week 2 DQ 2

What are the major differences between functional and process-based structures?

These are new terms to me so I'll take a stab at this discussion question. 

Week 2 DQ 3

How do value chain principles apply to system analysis?

Week 2 Assignment:

BSA 411 Week 2 Individual (Business Application System Proposal) (2650+ Words)

Week 3

Week 3 DQ 1

What are the reasons for object orientation?

Week 3 DQ 2

What is the relationship of the object model to the data structure?

Week 3 DQ 3

         After reviewing the Wang, et al. (2008) article, discuss three software development methodologies from the article and how you can apply them in your programming. 

Week 3 Assignment:

Week 3 Indivisual Assignment (Modeling Methodologies) (1650+ Words)

Week 4

Week 4 DQ 1

What benefit does modeling and software engineering give to the analysis process? 

Week 4 DQ 2

Based on Sauve’s (2009) article,What is the business driven IT management (BDIM) methodology?

Week 4 DQ 3

What benefits do state diagrams bring to the analysis process?

Week 4 Assignment:

BSA 411 Week 4 Assignment (Process Analysis and System Concept Development) (1250+ Words)

Week 5

Week 5 DQ 1

What is the difference between a procedure-driven and an event-driven strategy for controlling an application?

Week 5 DQ 2

What is the difference between relational database management systems and object-oriented database management systems?

Week 5 DQ 3

What is the difference between a procedure-driven and an event-driven strategy for controlling anapplication?

Week 5 DQ 4

What is the difference between relational database management systems and object-oriented database management systems? 

Week 5 Assignments:

BSA 411 Week 5 Final (Business System Analysis Methodology Presentation) (14 Slides)

BSA 411 Week 5 Final (Lowmill Corp. Plant Maintenance Department System) (3500+ Words)