Title
Analysis and Design in the IS Curriculum: Taking it to the Next Level
Abstract
Recent surveys of methodologies and techniques currently used in organizations for developing information systems indicate significant trends that call for a revision of the Information Systems (IS) Systems Analysis and Design (SA&D) course to define what methodologies, techniques, models, and tools need to be taught. Several course-related and environment governed trends seem to impact the coverage, including the growing popularity of object-oriented techniques, the shortening of the life cycle and the emergence of the iterative approach, the increasing adoption of the agile approach, the rising importance of UML, the outsourcing trend leading to global distribution of SA&D work, and the rate of change in the technical and business environments. The scope of the SA&D course has increased. Yet, most MIS degree programs have just one SA&D course. The typical SA&D instructor faces a number of difficult questions when trying to fit the much larger range of topics into a single course. A panel at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2007 conference evaluated how the trends impact the coverage of the SA&D course and made recommendations on how these trends can be addressed. Based on the panel discussion, this paper tackles the many challenges of teaching analysis and design in the IS curriculum and taking it to the next level.
Department(s)
Information Technology and Cybersecurity
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17705/1cais.02031
Publication Date
2007
Recommended Citation
Satzinger, John W., Dinesh Batra, and Heikki Topi. "Analysis and Design in the IS Curriculum: Taking it to the Next Level." Communications of the Association for Information Systems 20, no. 1 (2007): 31.
Journal Title
Communications of the Association for Information Systems
