Systems Analysis Page

All work set/undertaken in class MUST be completed either in class or during timetabled study periods ready for submission at your next scheduled class

Week 01 - ( w/b 4th Sept) Induction Week

Week 02 - ( w/b 10th Sept) - Systems Analysis - Unit 6 Syllabus & Ice Breakers

Week 03 - ( w/b 17th Sept) - Systems Analysis - Fact Finding and Feasibility

Week 04 - ( w/b 24th Sept) - Data Flow Diagrams 1 - CASE Tools

Week 05 - ( w/b 2nd Oct) - Data Flow Diagrams 2 - Context Diagrams

Week 06 - ( w/b 9th Oct) Drawing DFD's - The Level 1 DFD Diagram

Week 07 - ( w/b 15th Oct) Drawing DFD's - Assessment 6.2 (Context and Level 1 DFD)

Autumn Half Term

Week 08 - ( w/b 29th Oct) - The Systems Life Cycle

Week 09 - ( w/b 5th Nov) - Prepare for presentation next week

Week 10 - ( w/b 12th Nov) - Assessment 6.1 - Presentation / Submission

Week 11 - ( w/b 19th Nov) Drawing DFD's - The Level 2 Data Flow Diagra

Week 12 - ( w/b 26th Nov) SSADM - Methodology & Problem Definition

Week 13 - ( w/b 3rd Dec ) - Investigative and analytical techniques - Questionnaires

Assessment HELP - exercise 3 - Quesionnaire/ Interviews / Meetings

Week 14 - ( w/b 10th Dec) - Problem Definition Statement

Week 15 - ( w/b 17th Dec) - Reading Week / Consolidation catch up with Assessment

Christmas Holiday

Week 16 - w/b 7th Jan - Welcome Back / Quick Design refresher

Week 17 - w/b 14th Jan - Assessment 1 - Draft Design of New System

Week 18 - w/b 21st Jan - Assessment 6.2 Marking / Feedback

Week 19 - w/b 28th Jan - Normalisation - First Normal Form

Week 20 - w/b 4th Feb - Normalisation - Second Normal Form

Week 21 - w/b 11th Feb - Normalisation - Third Normal Form

Winter Half Term

Week 21 - w/b 5th Feb

Week 22 - w/b 19th Feb

Week 22 - w/b 26th Feb - p2, p3 , p4 - assessment deadlines set - tutorial

Week 23 - w/b 5th March - deadline p2, p3 , p4

Week 24 - w/b 12th March

Week 25 - w/b 19th March

Week 26 - w/b 26th March

Week 27 - w/b 16th April - System Database Design - Building a Prototype Database

Week 28 - w/b 23rd April - System Database Design - Data Flow Diagrams (P5)

Week 29 - w/b 30th April - System Database Design - Normalisation (P5)

Week 30 - w/b 7th May - System Database Design Assessment (P5)

Week 30 - w/b 7th May - System Database Testing ( P6)

Week 20- Investigate and Analyse 2 - Questionnaires ( w/b 30th Jan 2006 )

Investigate and analyse - Investigative and analytical techniques: interview, questionnaire, meeting, observation, use of manuals and files, document analysis, data analysis, procedure analysis, identification of need, output analysis

Week 21- Investigate and Analyse 3 - Interviews, Meetings & Observation (w/b 6 feb)

Week 22- System Development Methodologies 2 - SSADM Design (w/b 13 feb)

Principles of systems analysis and design - System development methodology: awareness of the importance of methodologies for
system development. Features of a methodology, eg clarity of records, consistency of approach, standardisation of recording, but flexibility within rules. Knowledge of the tools and techniques provided by one standard structured methodology

More Notes - Tools and Techniques of Systems Analysis

More Notes - More Tools and Techniques of Systems Analysis

Winter Half Term -

Week 23- Investigate and Analyse 5 - Documentation 1 (w/b 27 feb)

Design solution to the problem - Design: outline, detailed, input, output, processing, accuracy and validation controls
Documentation: accurate and clear documentation of the design in written and graphical form, standardisation of technique, awareness of standards, use of dataflow diagrams, process models, good and illustrated narratives (in addition to formal data flow diagrams, less formal, ?rich picture? illustrations should be used to assist communication with users)

Week 24 - Investigate and Analyse 6 - Documentation 2 (w/b 6 mar)

Worksheet - Structure Charts 1

Worksheet - Structure Charts 2

Week 25 - Design Solutions 1 - Design (w/b 13 mar)

More Notes - Systems Design

More Notes - Normalisation

More Notes - First Normal form

More Notes - Second Normal form

More Notes - Third Normal form

More Notes - Normalisation notes

Week 26 - Design Solutions 2 - Documentation (w/b 20 mar)

Week 27 - Design Solutions 3- Documentation for completed design (w/b 27 mar)

Documentation of the Design

Standardisation of Documenting Technques

Week 28 - Test Plan for completed design (w/b 3 apr)

Test plan for completed design - Production of a suitably thorough test plan to cover inputs, processing and outputs. Testing
should cover normal and extreme data, and acceptable and rejected data. Plan should give predicted outcomes with space for actual outcomes (of course, these cannot be completed without implementing the system)

Easter Holiday Break -

Background - Creating Data Flow Diagrams with SELECT SSADM CASE Tool

Background - Prototyping and designing a new system

Systems Analysis Labs/Worksheets

Worksheet - Case Study - Exercises based on Balloons UK Case Study

Worksheet - Case Study - Balloons UK