Designed for MIS majors Systems Analysis and Design course where the instructors' favor an object-oriented approach. This text presents an object-oriented methodology from the outset for beginning Systems Analysis and Design students. It uses UML notation (unified modeling language) for all diagrams and model renderings.

This textbook is designed for MIS majors Systems Analysis and Design course where the instructors' favor an object-oriented approach. MIS departments are revising their curriculums and switching from traditional techniques to purely object-oriented techniques. Just as objects are changing the way people program individual applications, so to will it affect the way people design larger application systems. This text will be the first to present an object-oriented methodology from the outset for beginning Systems Analysis and Design students. It is the first book to introduce object-oriented methods without relying on classical methods to introduce key concepts or without requiring students to know Java or C++. It will presume no knowledge whatsoever about process modeling or data modeling. The widely used UML notation (unified modeling language) will be used throughout the book for all diagrams and model renderings. The key benefit to this approach is that it makes the course easier to teach and learn since many students come to this course with limited backgrounds having only taken one introductory MIS course. Also, this approach is appealing because object-oriented methodology is widely used in industry.

• Part One: Introduction to UML and the Unified Process Chapter 1. Introduction to Information Systems Chapter 2. How Information Systems are Developed Chapter 3. The Object-Oriented Paradigm, UML, and the Unified Process Part Two: UML and the Unified Process Chapter 4. The Requirements Workflow I Chapter 5. The Requirements Workflow II Chapter 6. The Object-Oriented Analysis Workflow. I Chapter 7. The Object-Oriented Analysis Workflow. II Chapter 8. The Object-Oriented Design Workflow Chapter 9. The Workflows and Phases of the Unified Process Chapter 10. More on UML Part Three: MAJOR TOPICS IN SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN Chapter 11. CASE Chapter 12. Teams Chapter 13. Testing Chapter 14. Management Issues Chapter 15. Planning and Estimating Chapter 16. Maintenance Chapter 17. User-Interface Design Chapter 18. Web-Based Information Systems Chapter 19. Introduction to Database Management Systems Chapter 20 Technical Topics Appendix A. Term Project: Chocoholics Anonymous Appendix B. Object-Oriented Design: Osbert Oglesby Case Study Appendix C. Object-Oriented Design: MSG Foundation Case Study Appendix D. Implementation: Osbert Oglesby Case Study Appendix E. Java Implementation: MSG Foundation Case Study