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CI-620 System Analysis and Design

Schedule

Instructor: Ed Quigley 724.774.2088

Week 1: 1/15/98. Systems.

Overview. General Systems Theory.
Assignment: Read Fedex Articles
	    Read Debons on Systems
	    Read Gibson, SA-D. 
		Part I, p. 1-134.
		Part V, p. 659-716.
To do: Identify the project you want to develop in this course. 
Write a brief proposal describing the project, scope, and complexity.
E-mail the proposal to instructor by 1/26/98. 

Week 3: 1/29/98.

The chart below illustrates our progress through the semester 
(we're on week 3 of 14):
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Project Proposals Returned.
Nature of Systems
Software Engineering
Project Life Cycle
Modeling Issues
Life Cycle Issues
Rhetorical Communication
The Requirements Document


Assignment: 
	Read SA-D, Gibson/Hughes, Part II p.136-297.
	Read: InfoWeek: Knowledge and Wired: WallStreet.com articles
To Do: Begin your Project Requirements Document
	Complete Problem Definition phase of Life Cycle
	Write Req. Document: Intro (to a fair degree of completeness)
	Write Req. Document: Project Summary (at a sketchy level)

Week 4: 2/5/98

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Class at 6:00 pm
Topics: Requirements, Objects, Events, Entities
Entity Relationship Diagrams
Data Flow Diagrams
Design Dictionaries

You should now have:
   A problem definition
   written the Introduction section of the Requirements Document
   written the Project Summary section of the Req. Doc.

To do for next class:
Write a full list of Requirements
   Build E/R-D level 0 and 1. (level 2 will be required later)
   Build DFD level 0 and 1. (level 2 will be required later)
   Build a design dictionary (criteria:what it is, where it is, sub-elements)

No scheduled Class

Week 6: 2/19/98

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Class at 6:00 pm
Before this class, you should:
   Write a full list of Requirements
   Build E/R-D level 0 and 1. (level 2 will be required later)
   Build DFD level 0 and 1. (level 2 will be required later)
   Build a design dictionary (criteria:what it is, where it is, sub-elements)

During this class:
Review Notes and Material from 2/5
Reinforce ERD, DFD, D-Dictionary
Comment Forms Solicited
Midterm distributed and discussed.

After this class, begin work on:

• Life Cycle: System Design
• Req. Doc.: System Summary
• Req. Doc: System/ Environmental
• Req. Doc: System/ Behavioral

No class scheduled
Midterm Distributed by e-mail or fax at 6:00 pm. 

Week8: 3/5/98

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Class at 6:00 pm
Midterms collected at start of class.
Midterm answers posted on Website after class.

#. Introduction (2nd pass)

#. Project Summary (2nd pass)

#. System Summary (1st draft)

#. System Environmental Model (1st draft)

#. System Behavioral Model (1st draft)

#. Appendices

Topics to be covered: Design

• User-centered techniques
• Usability Testing
• Walk-throughs

Reading Assignment: All Handouts

Design Assignment:
Design yellow road signs for the four situations below.
The signs must be diamond-oriented, 2 inches high by two inches wide.
Two colors are availble: yellow and black.
No words permitted.

• Crossing a time zone boundary
• passing through a parachute landing zone
• approaching a mountain pass that is often very foggy
• driving beside a volcano

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3/12/98 no class, spring break
Tour of PIT Control Tower, 6:30 pm
Strictly Optional! Bring Guests!

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Week9: 3/19/98

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Class at 6:00 pm

Turn in four yellow road-signs.

Turn in Requirements Doc, including ERD and DFD levels 0,1, and 2:

#. Introduction

#. Project Summary

#. System Summary (2nd pass)

#. System Environmental Model (2nd pass)

#. System Behavioral Model (2nd pass)

#. User Implementation Model (1st draft)

#. Appendices (1st draft)

Topics to be covered: 
	Management 
	Project Management
	Change Management
To do for next week: 2 assignments listed in Topics.
Read the handout on Pictures Please.

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Week10: 3/26/98

No Scheduled Class

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Week11: 4/2/98

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Class at 6:00 pm
Turn in: Assignments from previous class
Final Exam Distributed.
Topics to be covered: Presentations
			Audience Focus
			Techniques
			Materials
			Preparation






Week 12: 4/9/98
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Final Exam Distributed
No Class. Happy Easter!
 




Week13: 4/16/98
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Class at 6:00 pm
Philosophy and Ethics of Design
Final Review: ERDs, DFDs, Dictionaries, Requirement Docs
  




Week14: 4/23/98
Class meets at 6:00 pm
Final Exam collected at 6:00 pm
Student Presentations
Course Critique
Dismissed at 7:30 pm
 






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