In addition to the usual purpose of providing a course outline, this introduction explains the educational goals of the course, my teaching philosophy, the methods employed in the course, and my expectations of you.
Course Material :
| Th Sept 24 | Introduction to
IS design.
Course administration Choose mini-term paper topic area by Friday |
| T Sept. 29 | Information systems and their information
More administration. Mini-term papers and group projects |
| Th Oct.1 | Information modeling |
| T Oct 6 | Information modeling "lab"
ER model assignment due Wednesday |
| Th Oct 8 | Understanding customer needs |
| T Oct 13 | Understanding customer needs |
| Th Oct 15 | Object and task modeling
Project requirements due |
| T Oct 20 | Colin in UK |
| Th Oct 22 | Colin in UK |
| T Oct 27 | Object and task modeling
Project prototype due |
| Th Oct 29 | Object and task modeling |
| T Nov 3 | |
| Th Nov 5 | Workflow support for IS development and other applications |
| T Nov 10 | Project object & workflow model due |
| Th Nov 12 | Software and information quality |
| T Nov 17 | Software and information quality |
| Th Nov 19 | The work of software development
Test cases assignment due |
| T Nov 24 | The work of software development |
| Th Nov 26 | Thanksgiving |
| T Dec 1 | |
| Th Dec 3 | Class review |