MSc SAD

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MSc SAD

• Revision 2005/2006

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• Introduction
• Business Organisations and Structures
• Information Requirements
• Systems Analysts
• SDLC
• Methodologies
• What are methodologies ?
• Reasons for having methodologies
• Standards
• Methods

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• Requirements Analysis
• Investigation methods
• Planning, Fact finding
• Three views of a system
• Process Modelling
• Context DFDs

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• Data Modelling
• ERDs
• Event Modelling
• ELHs
• Cross correlation of views
• Data-Process, Process-Event, Data-Event
• CASE tools
• Select SSADM Professional

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• Oracle RDBMS,
• Use of SQL, Forms
• Design
• Output, Input, Database, Data entry
• HCI, Screen Design
• Guidelines, Heuristics, Suitability of controls,
  Consistency etc.
• System Testing/Handover
• Stages of testing, test plans, changeover plans ,
  system documentation, system maintenance

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• Management and Professional Issues
• Project management, project planning, standards
  and quality assurance, legal and ethical
  considerations
• Normalisation
• What its for
• How its used - techniques

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• Quality Assurance using Software Engineering
• Top down approach, TQM, structured walkthrough,
  structured techniques
• Comparison of Methods and methodologies
• SSADM, SDLC, RAD, RUP etc.