Systems Analysis and Design

by Julie E. Kendall, Kenneth E. Kendall, Julie Kendall

Book Overview

Directed primarily toward students taking an course in undergraduate systems analysis and design, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals . Kendall and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 013608916X
• ISBN13: 9780136089162
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 3.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

E-commerce & business

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Comprehensive but pricey

The text covers the topic with ample examples and diagrams, plus cases short and long. The level of detail is appropriate for a graduate level course. The book is too ... The authors could eliminate the chapter on the office environment. They should condense the chapters on questionnaires and system presentation. Another solution: put the lengthy end-of-chapter case material on a CD; it is doubtful that all of it is used in any course. Perhaps the authors have too much clout to be edited.

Everything you ever wanted to know, and then some...

The Kendalls have definitely created a comprehensive book on systems analysis. Virtually every aspect is covered here, and in plenty of detail. There are plenty of review questions and problems, hypothetical consulting situations, an ongoing case-study, and even an associated web-based case study.While being well written, I feel that this text may be a bit overdone. Most sections are longer than neccessary, over-explaining fairly obvious concepts. So although the reader can never complain about being short-changed, I would be amazed if any reader needed ALL of the explanations to understand what was being discussed. I have also noticed a few cases of dated information creeping through from previous editions. One example is a discussion on groupware that talks about features of Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT, and mentions the 'upcoming' Chicago release. Chicago was the working name for Windows 95, which was hardly 'upcoming' for a text published in 1999.It feels as if the Kendalls have been adding new information to their revised editions, but not revising thoroughly enough to remove old or out of date references. If a really good job of revision was done here, I think this text could be reduced by at least a hundred pages or so without any real loss of useful content.Since it emphasises practice more than theory, it may not appeal to all types, but for anyone who needs to know HOW to be a systems analyst, this is probably the book to read.

A great book about Systems Analysis and Design

Well. This is a great book about Systems Analysis and Design. The whole book is under wonderful organization. As a MIS student, this book is the best start point to understand the systems analysis and design. The prototyping chapter is the best one, compare to other same topic books. In addition, the HyperCase is the best example to show how Internet could help teaching.

Excellent for an Aspiring Systems Analyst

This book starts with the fundamental aspects of a system, its life cycles and then goes into data gathering and system design. I think it is an excellent book to start with for persons in MIS/ computer related fields.the book alos comes with a software in which various CASE tools are featured.The hypercase experience is most interesting where actually u interview people taking the role of a systems analyst.