Information Systems Development has been adopted as the key text for many information systems, business and management, and computer science courses. The book has seven parts which relate to the Information Systems Development Context, the Systems Development Lifecycle, Themes of Systems Development, Techniques, Methodologies, Tools and Toolsets and finally Issues and Frameworks. This structure enables flexible use, either sequentially or by selecting sections or chapters to fit the specific needs of particular courses and favoured approaches. Offering comprehensive coverage from traditional approaches through to the most recent agile methods, the book’s unique strength lies in its combination of descriptions and insight into methodologies, techniques and tools with the analysis of context, issues and real-world problems associated with information systems development. Retaining these existing strengths, the fourth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect progress in this fast-paced discipline and to include the authors’ recent experience of teaching with the text, as well as feedback from reviewers, colleagues and students.
Contents
Preface
Part 1: Introduction
1.Context
2.Information systems development
Part 2: The life cycle approach
3.Information systems development life cycle
Part 3: Themes in information systems development
4.Organisational themes
5.People themes
6.Modelling themes
7.Rapid and evolutionary development
8.Engineering themes
9.External development
Part 4: Techniques
10.Holistic techniques
11.Data techniques
12.Process techniques
13.Object-oriented techniques
14.Project management techniques
15.Organizational techniques
16.People techniques
17.Techniques in context
Part 5: Tools and Toolsets
18.Tools
19.Toolsets
Part 6: Methodologies
20.Process-oriented methodologies
21.Blended
22.Object-oriented methodologies
23.Rapid development methodologies
24.People-oriented methodologies
25.Organisational-oriented methodologies
26.Frameworks
Part 7: Methodology issues and comparisons
27.Issues
28.Methodology comparisons
Bibliography
Index