This text book takes a fresh approach to an established part of the computing curriculum. It provides a comparative treatment of current systems analysis methods at an introductory level suitable for first year computer scientists. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the principles, as well as the particular features, of current methods and introduces new skills borrowed from disciplines outside the computing domain, such as soft systems and semiotics. The approach is that of providing a toolbox where the student will be able to understand and employ the criteria for tool selection and select the tools available for the job. The book begins with a conventional introduction to systems analysis, placing the role of understanding technological processes in the organization at the heart of the systems analysts purpose in informing systems design. The book then examines two novel approaches which are introduced to the systems analysts toolbox, namely Soft Systems Method (SSM) and semiotic analysis. The second half of the book concentrates on the comparative features of methods at the systems design level.
The emphasis is on understanding the processes of reduction, abstraction and formalisation commonly employed, to inform decisions on the method appropriate to any given process.
- ISBN10 185728674X
- ISBN13 9781857286748
- Publish Date 31 October 1998
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 13 February 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English