MGIS-340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Functional Requirement, System Analysis, Systems Analysis
29 Sep 2017
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System analysis and design in a changing world. Involve discovery and understanding: analysis activities, gather detailed information, define requirements, prioritize requirements, develop user-interface dialogs, evaluate requirements with user. What are requirements: system requirements, functional requirements, non-functional requirement, functional requirements- the activities the system must perform, business uses, functions the users carry out, non- functional requirements- other system characteristics, constraints and performance goals. Models and modeling: types of models, textual- something written down, described, graphical- diagram, schematic, mathematical- formulas, statistics, algorithms, unified modeling language (uml, standard graphical modeling symbols/terminology used for information systems. Stakeholders: stakeholders- persons who have an interest in the successful implementation of the system. Internal stakeholders: external stakeholders, operational stakeholders, executive stakeholders. Interviewing users and other stakeholders: distributing and collecting questionnaires, reviewing inputs, outputs and documentation, observing and documenting business procedures, researching vendor solutions, collecting active user comments and suggestions.
