INLS 582_003, Systems Analysis

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January Feburary March April

Notes:
This tentative schedule lists the  topics, readings, and assignments for the semester. Readings or assignments may be adjusted as needed.

Wednesday 1/09/13, Class 1

Part I.
 Introductions
Business: Discussion leaders for Case Study 1
In Class: Intro Slides
Assignment:
Case Studies 2-4 preferences due by Wednesday, 01/16/13
Check Sakai access
Sign up for mail list

Part II. Information Systems, Information Systems Analysis -- what are they?
Preparation: Read
Sellen, A. & Harper, R. (2002). The future of paper. In Sellen & Harper, The Myth of the Paperless Office, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Ch. 7, pp. 185-212.
Project specifications
Prep Slides 1
Prep Slides 2
Business: Discuss the Project.
In Class: Discussion Slides
Wednesady 1/16/13, Class 2.

Part I.  The Systems Development Life Cycle; Case Study 1
Preparation: Read
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 1, Introduction
Batra, D., Xia, W., VanderMeer, D. & Dutta, K. (2010). Balancing Agile and structured development approaches to successfullly manage large distributed software projects: A case study from the cruise line industry. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 27, Article 21, 379-394.
Case Study 1: Jaferian, P., Botta, D., Hawkey, K., & Beznosov, B. (2009). A case study of enterprise identity management system adoption in an insurance organization. Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for the Management of Information Technology (CHIMIT), 46-55. Discussion leaders' comments due Monday 1/14/13.
Prep Slides
In Class:

Part II.  Models
Preparation: Read
In Class:
Assignment: Case Studies 2-4 preferences due.
Wednesday 1/23/13, Class 3.

Part I. Problem definition; feasibility study
Preparation: Read
Davis, W. (1999). The problem statement.  In W. Davis & D. Yen, The Information System Consultant's Handbook: Systems Analysis and Design. Boca Raton: CRC Press. Chapter 12, 87-90.
Davis, W. (1999). The feasibility study. In W. Davis & D. Yen, The Information System Consultant's Handbook: Systems Analysis and Design. Boca Raton: CRC Press. Chapter 13, 91-96.
Prep Slides
In Class:
IAssignment: Assign Problem Definition, due Wednesday 2/06/13.

Part II. Contextual inquiry; information gathering
Preparation: Read
Swan, L., Taylor, A., & Harper, R. (2008). Making place for clutter and other ideas of home. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 15(2), Article 9.
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 2, Gathering Customer Data & Ch. 3, Principles of contextual inquiry.
Prep Slides
In Class:
Wednesday, 1/30/13, Class 4. CI; infGath, cont.

Part I. Preparation: Read
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 4, Contextual inquiry in practice.
Gellatly, A., Hansen, C., Highstrom, M & Weiss, J. (2010). Journey: General Motors' move to incorporate contextual design into its next generation of automotive HMI designs. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 156-161.
Prep Slides
In Class:
Today's Groups: Group 1 - Vida, Johnathan, Michael, Nikki ; Group 2 - Jenny, Monica, Josh, Jordan ; Group 3 - John, Jai, Morgan
Discussion Slides

Part II. Project management
Preparation: Read
Armour, P. (2002). Ten unmyths of project estimation. Communications of the ACM, 45(11), 15-18.
Project Management Institute Browse the website, especially "About Us" and "Certification" pages.
Prep Slides
In Class:
No seating chart today
Discussion Slides
Wednesday 2/06/13, Class 5. Scenarios; personas

Part I. Preparation: Read
In Class:
Today's Groups
Discussion Slides (scenarios & personas)
Assignment: Problem Definition due today.
Problem Definitions
Submit problem preferences by Friday 2/08/13, 12:00 noon; review candidate problems.


Part II. Project/Team organization
Preparation: Read
Burdman, J. (1999). Communication issues. In Collaborative Web
Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 75-87.
Mark, G. (1998).  Building virtual teams: Perspectives on communication, flexibility and trust. ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, 19(3), 38-41.
Project Candidates
In Class:
Assignment: Assign Information Gathering Plans, due Wednesday 2/20/13 at 5pm.
Tuesday, 2/13/13, Class 6.

Part I. Use cases 
Preparation: Read
In Class:

Part II. Artifact models; flow charts
Preparation: Read
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 6, Work models: The artifact model, pp. 102-107.
Prep Slides (artifact models)
Artifact Example
In Class:
Wednesday, 2/20/13, Class 7. (Note: Information Gathering Plans DUE TODAY at 5pm)

Part I.
Activity models
Preparation: Read
In Class:
Assignment: Assign Work Models, due Thursday 2/27/13.

Part II. Sequence model; decision models
Preparation: Read
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 6, Work models: The sequence model, pp. 96-101.
Prep Slides (decision models)
Prep Slides (sequence model)
In Class:
Assignment: Information Gathering Plans due today.
Wednesday, 2/27/13, Class 8. Flow model

Part I. Preparation: 
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 6, Work models: The flow model, pp. 89-96
Prep Slides
Flow Example
In Class:

Part II. Case Study 2; Interpretation
Preparation: Read
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 7, The interpretation session.
 Case Study 2: Duncan, V. & Gerrard, A. (2011). All Together Now! Integrating Virtual Reference in the Academic Library. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 50(3), 280-292. Discussion leaders' comments due Monday 2/25/13.
Prep Slides
In Class:
Assignment: Work Models due today.
Wednesday 3/06/13, Class 9.  

Part I. Physical models, cultural models
Preparation: Read
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 6, Work models: The physical model, pp. 115-123.
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 6, Work models: The cultural model, pp.  107-115.
Monk, A. & Howard, S. (1998).The rich picture: a tool for reasoning about work context.  interactions, 5(2), 21-30.
Prep Slides (physical model)
Prep Slides (cultural model)
In Class:
Discussion Slides
Part II. Semantic Modeling; entity-relationship models
Preparation: Read
Elmasri, R. & Navathe,  S. (2007).  Ch. 3, Data modeling using the entity-relationship (ER) model, sections 3.1-3.4. In Fundamentals of Database, 5th edition. Addison Wesley. (Note: Ch. 7.1-7.4 in later editions)
Prep Slides (content models)
Prep Slides (ER model)
In Class:

Assignment: Project Draft Models 1 due today.

Wednesday, 3/13/13, no class. Spring Break

Wednesday, 3/20/13, Class 10.

Part I.
ER models, cont.
Preparation: Practice
Prep Slides (ER practice exercises)
In Class:

Assignment: Assign ER Model, due Wednesday 4/05/13.

Part II. Data dictionary; CRUD; Case Study 3
Preparation: Read

Case Study 3: Koelker, J, Bouchard, K. & Lutz, J. (2010). Development of the Information Commons at TCU: A Case Study.  Journal of Library Administration, 50(2), 95-115. Discussion leaders' comments due Monday 3/18/13.
Discussion leaders: Josh Rice, Jennifer Hackeling, Monica Holloway
Prep Slides

In Class:
Wednesday, 3/27/13, Class 11.

Part I. Card sorting; web models; Consolidation
Preparation: Read
Rosenfeld, L. & Morville, P. (2006). Information  Architecture for the World Wide Web. O'Reilly. Ch. 10.7.2, Card sorting and Ch. 12.1 - 12.4, Design and Documentation
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 9, Creating one view of the customer. Read pp. 151-163. 
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 11, Work redesign. "Directed skimming": please read all figures, captions, and hints.
Prep Slides (web models)
Prep Slides (consolidation)
In Class:

Part II. User Environment model; Accessibility
Preparation: Read
Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 15, The User Environment Design.
Loiacono, E. (2004).  Cyberaccess: Web accessibility and corporate  America. Communications of the ACM, 47(12), 82-87.
Loiacono, E., Romano, N. & McCoy, S. (2009) The state of corporate website accessibility. Communications of the ACM, 52(9), 128-132.
Read about the Federal Government's Section 508. I recommend: 508 Law; Summary of 508 Standards; Accessability Tools and Support; FAQs
Look at W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, including  the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Overview
Prep Slides (UED)
Prep Slides (Accessibility
In Class:
Wednesday, 4/03/13, Class 12.

Part I. Accessibility, cont.; risk, change
Preparation: Read
Lorenzi, N,. & Riley, R. (2000). Managing Change: An Overview. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 7, 116-124.
Sicotte, C. et al. (2006). A risk assessment of two interorganizational clinical information systems. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 13, 557-566.
Prep Slides
In Class:
Assignment: Project Draft Models 2 due today.

Part II. Design ethics
Preparation: Read
In Class:

Discussion Slides
Case Study #4 Discussion leaders' comments due Sunday 4/08/13.

Assignment: ER Model due on 4/5/13 by 4pm.

Wednesday 4/10/13, Class 13.

Part I. Case Study 4; Wrap-up
Preparation: Read
Case Study 4: Guillemette, M., Fontaine, I., Caron, C. (2009). A hybrid tracking system of human resources: A case study in a Canadian university. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 24(1), Article 15.
Discussion leaders: Dongqiuye (John) Pu, Jayasurya (Jai) Somasunder
In Class:

Part II. Presentations (order TBD)
Wednesday, 4/17/13, Class 14.

Part I. Presentations (order TBD)
Part II. Presentations (order TBD)

Wednesday, 4/24/13.

Part I. Presentations (order TBD)
Part II.
Presentations (order TBD) - if necessary

FINAL EXAM: Monday, 5/06/13. Projects and Team Evaluations due no later than 12:00 noon.


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