DS33010 - PRINCIPLES OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Module Identifier

DS33010

Module Title

PRINCIPLES OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Academic Year

2005/2006

Co-ordinator

Dr Christine J Urquhart

Semester

Available all semesters

Other staff

Miss Alyson Tyler, Mr John Nelson, Ms Tanya C Rogers

Course delivery

Lecture

Seminars / Tutorials

Assessment

Assessment Type	Assessment Length/Details	Proportion
Semester Assessment	Essay: of 1,250-1,500 words discussing a systems analysis issue	50%
Semester Assessment	Group Project: One Group Project (planning a systems analysis project)	50%

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module students should be able to:

Design questionnaires and interview schedules;
Identify and represent users'information requirements, using a variety of charting techniques;
Consider the organisational issues involved in changing an information system;
Analyse in outline the information flows within a system.

Brief description

Systems thinking and systems behaviour, including the systems approach to management; the role of organisational culture in change and the application of chaos theory to organisational behaviour; questionnaire and interview techniques for assessing user information requirements; principles of soft systems methodologies; use of rich pictures and charting techniques UML use cases, introduction to project management techniques.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6