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Business Analysis and System Design COMP 1712

Computer Systems Course

International Fees

International fees are typically 3.12 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.

Course details

Business Analysis and Systems Design is the study of concepts, processes and tools that professionals use to plan and develop information systems to industry standards. Students learn how to ask implicit questions, to create and document communication plans and to make better decisions prior to creating a software system. Beginning with an introduction to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), students work in teams to initiate the system process, analyze problems, discover requirements and create a logical design. Topics include: techniques used in the discovery of business requirements, traditional approaches to data and process modelling, entity-relationship diagrams, and an introduction to relational database normalization. Agile life cycles such as Scrum are also introduced and compared to more planned life cycles such as waterfall. By the end of this course, successful participants will be able to use tools and methods commonly used in industry to analyze, design, and implement information systems as confirmed by a term project.

Prerequisite(s)

  • No prerequisites are required for this course.

Credits

4.0

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Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Explain and use the various phases and organizations of the SDLC including agile and planned life cycles.
  • Describe the factors indicating whether agile or planned life cycles are appropriate for a given project and use these factors to evaluate a case study
  • Perform system requirements capture and analysis.
  • Read, interpret and develop models that can be used to document requirements capture, analysis, design, implementation and test for a software/systems project.
  • Construct a cost benefit analysis to determine the feasibility of a software/systems project.
  • Develop a software architecture.
  • Describe implementation and support activities.
  • Identify appropriate formats for system documentation.
  • Create a logical data design using ER diagrams (or equivalent)
  • Create a normalized relational database schema. .

Effective as of Fall 2018

Related Programs

Business Analysis and System Design (COMP 1712) is offered as a part of the following programs:

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School of Computing and Academic Studies

  1. Computer Systems Technology
    Diploma Full-time

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