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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