Learn Analysis or Extend
Your Skills with a Detailed Project and a Comprehensive Textbook
About the Book
In a fundamentally
new approach, Complete Systems Analysis teaches everything you need to
know about analyzing systems: the methods, the models, the techniques, and more.
A
definitive text on modern systems analysis techniques is combined with an extensive
case study to give readers hands-on experience in completing an actual analysis
project.
Readers proceed through each step of a full-scale analysis project,
analyzing the complex requirements of a television station's airtime programming
department. Each phase of the case study and each exercise in the textbook section
is thoroughly explained in separate review and answer sections.
An innovative
Trail Guide system—inspired by the difficulty levels marked
on ski trails—encourages readers to follow a sequence that suits their skill
level. Beginners follow the full trail while experienced analysts fill in gaps
in their training, refresh their understanding of key concepts, and practice their
skills. Managers review key concepts but can skip the detailed work with models.
The
book shows how analysis is used for object-oriented implementation, and how event-response
data flow models and entity-relationship data models are complementary, not competing,
models.
Complete Systems Analysis adapts to the reader's needs and
provides an appropriate learning path for the beginner, with a more direct route
for experienced analysts wanting to make better use of today's techniques. Since
its first publication in 1994 as a two-volume set in hardcover, this highly acclaimed
text—released in 1998 as a single softcover volume—has served as a course
text in classes throughout the world.
Note: This softcover edition
replaces the two-volume hardcover edition, ISBN: 0-932633-25-0, which cost US$78.95
postpaid.
Topics Include
Analysis Models
Data
Flow Diagrams
Data Viewpoint
Data Models
Leveled Data
Flow Diagrams
Current Physical Viewpoint
Building the Data Dictionary
Strategy: Focusing on the Essentials
Identifying Events
Modeling
an Event Response
Writing Mini Specifications
CRUD Check
Modeling
New Requirements
New Physical Viewpoint
Object-Oriented Viewpoint
Strategy: Toward Implementation
Reviews
". . . a masterful job. . . . a thoroughly
detailed case study."
". . . the Robertsons' theory is heavily integrated with practical exercises.
. . . you will appreciate the tremendous effort the Robs have put into making
this two-volume set a true learning tool."
—Warren
Keuffel Software Development
".
. . clearly the best book available for teaching modern systems analysis to practitioners."
—Richard
C. Cohen STARSYS
"The authors
make years of practical experience available to the readers, providing valuable
guidance to the analyst. . . . This is one well-written book. It succeeds in making
a difficult subject easily understandable."
—Erik
Hansen Kommunedata
". . . a wealth
of ideas for a manager to use to gain insight about project content, quality,
scope, direction, and participants."
—Verne
Thomas Burk Unisys Corporation
".
. . from the very first page, an extraordinary and wonderful page, you will know
this book is fundamentally different from any other analysis text you may encounter."
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