Product Description

The book is directly relevant for students on HND, degree and professional courses. This market-leading text covers the whole range of activities necessary for the analysis, design and implementation of computer-based information and data processing systems. The authors emphasize the role of people, management and quality issues, and consider practical and business realities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152315 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 520 pages

Synopsis
The book is directly relevant for students on HND, degree and professional courses. This market-leading text covers the whole range of activities necessary for the analysis, design and implementation of computer-based information and data processing systems. The authors emphasize the role of people, management and quality issues, and consider practical and business realities.

From the Back Cover
The second edition of this market-leading text covers the whole spectrum of activities necessary for the analysis, design and implementation of computer-based information and data processing systems.

Fully updated and revised throughout, the authors continue to emphasise the role of people, management and quality issues, and to consider practical and business realities in relation to SAD, making the book directly relevant to students on HND, degree and professional courses. This new edition covers all of the topics examined within the Information Systems Examinations Board's Diploma syllabus for systems analysis and design.

• A chapter that looks towards future developments, drawing on the expertise of leading practitioners.
• An extended case study that relates theory to real business experience.
• Material on ethics and the BCS code of conduct in line with current priorities.
• More challenging exercises and cases.
• New material on OO analysis and design and information security
• Further reading and web references.

Coverage includes new hardware, methodologies, interactive developments and E-commerce. The technical details are clearly presented and set within an understandable business and practitioner context throughout.

is a lecturer at The University of the West of England and a member of the ISEB Diploma Board for Systems Analysis and Design.
Donald Yeates is an independent consultant and on the Associate Faculty at Henley Management College.

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Customer Reviews

Better than the rest
I have only owned this book for the last 3 months but already it is proving to be invaluable to me.
Everything that I have done for my SAD project has been looked up in this book first and I must say everything was there, not only there but also well covered.
The book may be 7 year old but as for the structured methods they remain the same, references to different kinds of hardware and software may be dated.
It took me 3 weeks to choose a book for my course and having borrowed many different copies from the libary this one stood out from the rest.