Summary

A new edition of the popular guide presenting the concepts, tools, and techniques required for systems analysis in the workplace. The populist reference walks the reader through a project's life cycle, including planning, data dictionary, analysis, controls and auditing, and security analysis. The systems' applications are demonstrated with a variety of case studies based on industrial, financial, and publishing contexts. This edition also features new discussions of JAD, rightsizing, distributed databasing, reuse models, E-mail, expert systems, LANs, and WANs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR