IFS440 - Business Systems Analysis and Design Spring 2012
| IFS440 Interesting Links | Description |
| FPA Tutorial | This tutorial gives a brief overview of Function Point Analysis. It can be found at softwaremetrics.com. |
| COBOL vs Visual Basic FPA | This link is to a worksheet in html format that compares COBOL with Visual Basic. |
| Steps in JAD | The name and authors of the article found at this link is "Higher Quality Requirements: Supporting Joint Application Development with the Nominal Group Technique" by E. Duggan and C. Thachenkary. The five steps in the JAD process can be found at the screen shot of Table 2 here. This article comes from springerlink.com. |
| Steps in Survey Research | The name and author of the article found at this link is "Survey research in operations management: a process-based perspective" by C. Forza. Figure 1 shows the steps in the process to do survey research. You can find a screen shot of Figure 1 here. This article comes from emeraldinsight.com. |
| Roger Sessions | He is a software architect's architect. That is, software architects hire him, are trained by him, and look up to him. What interests me about his approach to project management is his SIP methodology which mathematically shows why small projects are more successful than large projects. Click here to go to his web shorts to see a video titled "SIP Methodology for Project Optimization." |
| Careers | Overview of job prospects and salaries. |
| MS Solution Accelerators | MS Solution Accelerators are canned plans for analyzing, designing and implementing Microsoft technologies. Sure, they are based upon Microsoft, but they do provide "food for thought" when it comes to tools such as virtualization and social networking (SharePoint). One set of such plans is for infrastructure planning. You can get the full zip here. Finally, I would think that a cost comparison would be very important for selecting any technology. Check this link which compares MS with VMware products. |
| Jobs in MIS | Check out this link for a prospectus of jobs in MIS. This paper is written by Ken Laudon and is a good read. |
| Skills in Demand | Check this link to see the skills in demand in IT. The data comes from two surveys reported by cioinsight.com. |
| Project management processes | This article from wikipedia.org describes the processes involved in project management. |
| Still in a Sorry State? | This article from ddj.com states that software development projects may not be in as sorry a state as the original Standish Report indicated. |
| The First Standish Report | The Standish Report is an annual report of the overall success of software development projects. It is also called the CHAOS report. The first report generally results in the statistic that I use that less than 50% of software projects are fully successful. |
| Kathy Schwalbe's Web Site | Go to the author's web site. You can find copies of project templates in her FAQ. |
| IFS440 Course Requirements | Description |
| Rubrics Research | Get a copy of the zip file with the rubrics documents that we discussed 4/4/2012. |
| Initial Project Requirements | Get it at this link. You also can find the peer evaluation form here. |
| Homework | Get it at this link. |
| PowerPoints | Get a zip of all of the PowerPoint presentations. |
| My Schedule | Get my schedule at this link. |
| Syllabus | Get the syllabus at this link |
