ITM 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Crystal Computing, User Interface, Programming Language

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 305
• Professor: Upal Nath

Document Summary

Analysis provides the starting point for design. Design provides the starting point for implementation. Analysis and design results are documented to coordinate the work. Objective of design is to define, organize and structure the components of the final solution to serve as a blue print for construction. The formality of the project will dictate the type, complexity and depths. Agile/iteration projects typically build fewer models, but models are still created. Jumping to programming without design often causes less than optimum solutins and may require rework. Design activities corresponds to components of the new system. Application component is a well-defined unit of software that performs some function(s) To the user, the user interface is the system. The user interface has large impact of user productivity. Includes both analysis and design tasks (requires heavy user involvement) By definition, an information system requires data, usually in a database. Current technology frequently use relational database management systems (rdbms)