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CS975 – Business Analysis
TIMETABLE TEACHING MATERIAL
Credits 10
Level 5
Semester 2
Prerequisites N/A
Availability Possible elective
Contact
Lectures: 6 (2 hours each) | Labs: 5 (1 hour each)
Assignments: 33 | Self-study: 50
Assessment
Students will complete a class test (30% of the marks) and a group assignment (70%
of the marks).
Resit An individual assignment (100%)
Lecturer Dr Martin Halvey
General Aims
This class aims to:
• provide tools and techniques for the effective analysis and design of business information
systems, and enable students to develop an understanding of their respective advantages,
disadvantages and applicability.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students will be able to:
• communicate and apply principles of good business analysis practice;
• select tools and techniques for the analysis and design of business information systems;
• undertake business analysis as part of system development;
• undertake business process modelling and design.
Syllabus
• Systems development: lifecycle process models; systems requirements challenges and best
practice.
• Requirements development: elicitation and analysis.
• Requirements development: specification and validation.
• Business process modelling: concepts, principles, notation.
• Business process modelling: methodology and tools.
• Business process modelling: partitioning and decomposition.
Recommended Text/Reading*
* This list is indicative only – the class lecturer may recommend alternative reading material. Please
do not purchase any of the reading material listed below until you have confirmed with the class
lecturer that it will be used for this class.
Business analysis. James Cadle; Debra Paul; Donald Yeates. 2nd ed, British Computer Society c2010
Information Systems Development: methodologies, techniques and tools. Avison, D.E. and
Fitzgerald, G. 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2003.
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice. Checkland, P. John Wiley, Chichester, 1999.
Requirements Engineering: processes and techniques. Kotonya, G. and Sommerville, I. John Wiley &
Sons, New York 1998.
Business Process Management: a rigorous approach. Ould, M.A. Meghan-Kiffer Press, London,
2005.
Software Engineering: a practitioner’s approach. Pressman, R. 6th edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston,
2004.
Business Rules Applied: building better systems using the business rules approach. Von Halle, B.
John Wiley & Sons, New York. 2001.
Digital Business Analysis. Milani, Fredrik. Cham: Springer International AG, 2019. Web.