School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Business Systems Analysis
  • Unit Code

    MAN5902
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Ahmad KHANFAR

Description

Many of the problems associated with business information systems projects are due to a poor definition of requirements in any of the following areas: business, stakeholder, solution and transition. This unit examines the core concepts and practical techniques necessary to ensure accurate and complete requirement specifications in today's rapidly changing cross-cultural business environment. Emphasis is placed on identifying the need for information systems within the business and ensuring that the resulting systems meet defined goals and objectives. Students learn to model system requirements using various approaches including the "object-oriented" approach. Students will demonstrate how to communicate to specialist and non-specialist audiences these business requirements and IS solutions.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply systems analysis, modelling and design techniques to real world problems.
  2. Compare the major alternative methodologies used in developing information systems and the considerations involved in choosing a methodology.
  3. Assess business requirements, stakeholder requirements, business solution/system requirements and transition requirements.
  4. Conceptualise effective systems specifications and be persuasive in these presentations.

Unit Content

  1. The systems development environment.
  2. Stakeholder analysis and management.
  3. Analysing business, stakeholder and solution/system requirements.
  4. Identifying, selecting, initiating and applying system development methods.
  5. Systems design including user interface.
  6. Object-oriented modelling using the universal modelling language (UML).
  7. Future trends in business analysis.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

On- Campus Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard. To maximise student engagement and opportunities for learning, some of the learning activities may be conducted in the form of webinars and or video conferencing; mirroring the way that businesses use to communicate and learn. Details about these activities are provided in the unit plan schedule. Online Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies. These may include the use of webinars, videoconferencing and or online discussion board activities. Details about these activities are provided in the unit plan schedule.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportBusiness Systems Analysis Report30%
ExerciseModelling Exercise30%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportBusiness Systems Analysis Report30%
ExerciseModelling Exercise30%
ExaminationExamination40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Satzinger, J., Jackson, R., & Burd, S. (2015). Systems analysis and design in a changing world (7th ed., pp. xxvii, 484). Australia: Cengage Learning. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/899704343

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Business Systems Analysis
  • Unit Code

    MAN5902
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Ahmad KHANFAR

Description

Many of the problems associated with business information systems projects are due to a poor definition of requirements in any of the following areas: business, stakeholder, solution and transition. This unit examines the core concepts and practical techniques necessary to ensure accurate and complete requirement specifications in today's rapidly changing cross-cultural business environment. Emphasis is placed on identifying the need for information systems within the business and ensuring that the resulting systems meet defined goals and objectives. Students learn to model system requirements using various approaches including the "object-oriented" approach. Students will demonstrate how to communicate to specialist and non-specialist audiences these business requirements and IS solutions.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply systems analysis, modelling and design techniques to real world problems.
  2. Compare the major alternative methodologies used in developing information systems and the considerations involved in choosing a methodology.
  3. Assess business requirements, stakeholder requirements, business solution/system requirements and transition requirements.
  4. Conceptualise effective systems specifications and be persuasive in these presentations.

Unit Content

  1. The systems development environment.
  2. Stakeholder analysis and management.
  3. Analysing business, stakeholder and solution/system requirements.
  4. Identifying, selecting, initiating and applying system development methods.
  5. Systems design including user interface.
  6. Object-oriented modelling using the universal modelling language (UML).
  7. Future trends in business analysis.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

On- Campus Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard. To maximise student engagement and opportunities for learning, some of the learning activities may be conducted in the form of webinars and or video conferencing; mirroring the way that businesses use to communicate and learn. Details about these activities are provided in the unit plan schedule. Online Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies. These may include the use of webinars, videoconferencing and or online discussion board activities. Details about these activities are provided in the unit plan schedule.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportBusiness Systems Analysis Report30%
ExerciseModelling Exercise30%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportBusiness Systems Analysis Report30%
ExerciseModelling Exercise30%
ExaminationExamination40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. P. (2020). Management information systems : managing the digital firm (Sixteenth Edition.). Harlow, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1109837231
  • Satzinger, J., Jackson, R., & Burd, S. (2015). Systems analysis and design in a changing world (7th ed., pp. xxvii, 484). Australia: Cengage Learning. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/899704343

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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