Basic information systems analysis and design [[Book] /]
Myrvin F. Chester and Avtar K. Athwall.
- London ; Burr Ridge, IL : McGraw-Hill Education, 2002.
- 243 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Companion web site contains additional tutorials and worked examples for the student and suggested tutorial answers for the lecturer.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-240) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The systems development life cycle and the systems analyst -- 3. Requirements analysis: the discovery of what is needed -- 4. Report writing and presentations for the systems analyst -- 5. Soft systems techniques -- 6. Entity relationship diagrams I: logical data structures -- 7. Entity relationship diagrams II: more complex relationships -- 8. Data flow diagrams I: basic ideas -- 9. Data flow diagrams II: levels of data flow diagrams -- 10. Entity life histories and object oriented techniques -- 11. Process descriptions -- 12. Logicalization -- 13. Design of information systems -- 14. Relational data analysis (normalization) -- 15. Proposed data requirements -- 16. Processing requirements -- 17. Storage of data -- 18. User interfaces -- 19. System installation -- 20. Documentation -- 21. Epilogue.