Systems Analysis Techniques for Business People: How Should These Techniques Differ from Techniques for IS Professionals

Learning Outcomes By the end of the module students should be able to: • Work with others to apply a variety of techniques for requirements elicitation (for well-defined problems of medium complexity and restricted scope). • Identify, document, and prioritise functional requirements of medium complexity (with some tutor guidance on the scope of the problem). • Model the main data that are needed to support a given set of functional requirements. • Identify and model the activities, tasks, functions, processes of human activity systems and their supporting information systems (for well-defined problems of medium complexity and restricted scope). • Identify and analyse business and system requirements. • Build business activity models to identify the main functions of a business. • Appreciate the various fact-finding techniques and their application through various case studies. • Understand the role of users and their strategic value in the development of information systems. 
 Course Content The aims of the module are to: Enable students to identify information systems requirements in a way that is sensitive to the needs of the users and to the objectives of the organisation. Allow students to document and model information systems requirements, including the modelling of the data and processes that support these. Identify and document functions within an IS environment.