Business Systems Analysis and Design - a brief note

The subject of Business Systems Analysis and Design covers the following topic areas:

1. Types of Information Systems and related systems development methods
2. Role of Systems Analysts and professional competence required
3. Information systems methodologies, with special reference to the systems development life cycle
4. Systems thinking in Business Systems Analysis and Design
5. Project management concepts as appled in Information Systems development projects
6. On CASE tools and prototyping
7. On data-flow diagrams and UML notions: a brief review
8. On requirement specification techniques
9. On commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software selection
10. Soft systems methodology (including the technique of rich picture building),  Rapid Application Development methodology (including the notion of JAD and SWAT team) for Business Systems Analysis and Design, and the spiral model.
11. On systems implementation strategies and software testing
12. On structured walkthrough in systems analysis

Reference
Hoffer, J.A. George, J.F. and Valacich, J.S. (2002) Modern Systems Analysis and Design, Prentice Hall.