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January 10, 2013 |
Introductions / What is systems analysis? |
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In class:
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Part 1:
- Introductions
- Review syllabus
- Select discussion leaders for case study 1
Part 2:
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Assignment:
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- Check Sakai access prior to the next class.
- Sign up for course mailing list.
- Discussion leaders for Case Study 1 submit discussion questions by Monday, January 14.
- Everyone else: submit preferences for leading Case Studies 2-4 by Thursday, January 17.
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January 17, 2013 |
Case Study 1 / Systems Development Life Cycle / Models |
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- Monday, 1/14/2013: Case Study 1 Discussion leader questions.
- Thursday, 1/17/2013: Case studies 2-4 preferences.
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Prep:
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- Prep slides for part 1
- Beyer & Holtzblatt, Chapter 1: Introduction
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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.
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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.
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Part 1:
Part 2:
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Assignment:
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- Case Study 1 discussion leader comments due by Monday, 1/21/13.
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January 24, 2013 |
Problem Statements / Info Gathering / Contextual Inquiry |
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- Monday, 1/21/13: Case study 1 discussion leader comments
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In class:
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I'll be at a conference during this class. Your instructor for this session will be my colleague
Cory Lown, Digital Technologies Development Librarian
in NCSU Libraries' Digital Library Initiatives department.
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Part 2:
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Assignment:
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January 31, 2013 |
Contextual inquiry, cont'd. / Project management |
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In class:
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Part 1:
Part 2:
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Assignment:
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- Reminder: Problem definitions due Thursday, 2/7/13.
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February 7, 2013 |
Scenarios, Personas, Use Cases |
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- Thursday, 2/7/13: Problem definitions
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Prep:
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- Prep slides part 1
- Beyer and Holtzblatt, Ch. 5
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Carrol, J. (2000). Five reasons for scenario-based design. Interacting with Computers, 13(1), 43-60.
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Holtzblatt, K., Wendell, J. & Wood, S. (2005). Rapid Contextual Design. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann. Ch. 9, Using Contextual Data to Write Personas, 181-191.
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In class:
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Part 1:
Part 2:
- Use Cases
- Group discussion of Storm Tracker exercise
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Assignment:
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Timeline for project selection activities:
- I will post all problem definitions to course website by Monday, 2/11/13.
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Please e-mail me THREE TO FOUR projects that you'd want to work on by Wednesday, 2/13/13, at noon.
Try to consider:
- Your interests: does it sound like a project you'd enjoy?
- Your skills: what can you contribute to this project?
- Your aspirations: does the project provide opportunities to learn a valuable technique?
- The problem: is the project feasible? Will the client be accessible?
- I will limit the problem definition list to candidate problems by noon, Thursday, 2/14/13.
- Review the candidate problems before class on Thursday, 2/14/13.
- In part 1 of our 2/14 class we will select problems and determine project groups.
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February 14, 2013 |
Project speed dating! / Artifact models |
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- Thursday, 2/14/13: Make sure you've read candidate definitions before class!
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Prep:
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- Review candidate problem definitions.
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In class:
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I'll be at a conference during this class. Your instructor for this session will be the amazing
Dr. Stephanie Haas, SILS professor, former
Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor, winner of the ASIS Outstanding Information Science Teacher of
the Year award, and three-time winner of the SILS Outstanding Teacher award.
(If you have any questions, honestly, she can probably answer them better than I could.)
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Part 2:
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Assignment:
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February 21, 2013 |
Models, models, models! |
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- Thursday, 2/21/13: Information Gathering Plans (one per team).
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Prep:
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In class:
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Part 1:
Part 2:
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Assignment:
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February 28, 2013 |
Flow Models / Case Study 2 / Interpretation |
Due:
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- Monday, 2/25/13: Discussion cues from Case Study 2 group leaders
- Thursday, 2/28/13: Work Model individual assignments
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Prep:
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In class:
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Part 1:
- Mid-semester debrief
- Project question/answer
- Flow Models
Part 2:
- Case Study 2
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Groups for Case Study 2:
- Chelcie, Christy, David, Amber
- Shane, Leslie, Angel, Julia
- Sunitha, Nicholas, Rebecca, Jayson
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The Interpretation Session
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Assignment:
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- Discussion leader comments to be e-mailed to me by Monday, 3/4/13.
- Project Draft Models round 1 to group dropboxes by Thursday, 3/7/13.
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March 7, 2013 |
Physical, Cultural, E-R, Semantic Models (oh my) |
Due:
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- Monday, 3/4/13: Case Study 2 Discussion Leader comments (via e-mail).
- Thursday, 3/7/13: Project Draft Models Round 1 (in project dropboxes).
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Prep:
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In class:
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Part 1:
Part 2:
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Assignment:
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Case study 3 discussion leaders (Nick, Barrye, Julia, Amber)
submit draft discussion points to me via e-mail by Monday, March 18.
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ER Model assignment, due Thursday, 4/4/2013.
You probably won't be able to fully model this until after break when we finish up our discussion of
ER models, but if you want to read ahead and/or get a head start over break, I'm presenting it here.
(Not officially assigned until 3/21.)
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March 14, 2013 |
Spring Break! |
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Prep:
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In class:
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There's no class this week, 'cause it's Spring Break, baby!
But it would be a good opportunity to convene with your group, work ahead on assignments, etc.
Or, you know, nap.
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Reminder:
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Case study 3 discussion leaders (Nick, Barrye, Julia, Amber),
don't forget to send me your discussion points for next class by Monday, 3/18/2013.
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March 21, 2013 |
ER Models, Continued, Data Dictionaries, CRUD, Case Study 3 |
Due:
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- Monday, 3/18/13: Case study 3 leader discussion prompts, via e-mail.
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Prep:
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In class:
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Part 1:
Part 2:
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Assignment:
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Case study 3 discussion leaders e-mail me with group discussion summary by Monday, 4/1/2013.
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ER Model assignment, due Thursday, 4/4/2013.
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March 28, 2013 |
Card sorting, web models, user environment, accessibility |
Due:
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- Monday, 3/25: Discussion leader comments for case study 3 (via e-mail).
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Prep:
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- Prep slides part 1a: Web Models
- Prep slides part 1b: Consolidation
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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
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Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 9, Creating one view of the customer. Read pp. 151-163.
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Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 11, Work redesign.
- Do a "directed skim" of this chapter: skim the text, read and understand all diagrams, captions, and sidebars.
- Prep slides part 2a: User environment design
- Prep slides part 2b: Accessibility
- Beyer & Holtzblatt, Ch. 15, The User Environment Design.
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Loiacono, E. (2004). Cyberaccess: Web accessibility and corporate America.
Communications of the ACM, 47(12), 82-87.
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Loiacono, E., Romano, N. & McCoy, S. (2009) The state of corporate website accessibility.
Communications of the ACM, 52(9), 128-132.
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Read about the Federal Government's Section 508.
In particular, check out:
You don't have to read each item in detail; but get a sense of the breadth of accessibility
concerns that Section 508 is meant to address.
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Explore the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative,
including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Overview
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In class:
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We will be having a visitor during this session.
Dr. Bergquist will be visiting during this class to
perform a peer observation of my teaching.
Part 1:
Part 2:
- User Environment Design
- UED example: MS Office products (as whim dictates)
- Accessibility
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Assignment:
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- Individual ER Model assignment due Thursday, April 4.
- Project draft models 2 and progress report due Thursday, April 4.
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April 4, 2013 |
Accessibility (cont'd), Risk, Change management, Design ethics |
Due:
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- Thursday, 4/4: Project draft models 2.
- Thursday, 4/4: Individual ER Model exercise.
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Prep:
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In class:
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Part 1:
Part 2:
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Assignment:
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- Case study 4 leaders' discussion points due via e-mail on Monday, April 8.
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April 11, 2013 |
Case Study 4, Wrap-up and Catch-up |
Due:
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- Monday, 4/8: Case study leader 4 discussion points, via e-mail.
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Prep:
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In class:
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Part 1:
Part 2:
- Deterimine agenda for final class
- Wrap-up discussions, open questions about projects, etc.
- Group breakout time
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Assignment:
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- Case study 4 discussion leader comments due Monday, April 15.
- Project groups prepare for presentations on Thursday, April 18.
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April 18, 2013 |
Project Presentations |
Due:
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- Monday, April 15: Case study 4 discussion leader comments
- Thursday, April 18: Team Project Presentations!
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In class:
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Project presentations
- Missed Connections
- Romancing the Stone
- REDACT
- Planview at BCBS
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Assignment:
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- Final project reports presented to clients and submitted to Sakai no later than April 30, 2013 at 7:00pm.
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April 25, 2013 |
Open Session |
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