CSI 351 - Systems Analysis and Design

Credits 5
Students will learn how to implement industry best practice methods and tools to identify and confirm business requirements, propose solutions, develop technical specifications usable in the design process, and communicate effectively to management, customers, and software developers. Other topics include business process diagramming, data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, and other techniques that help confirm understanding and agreement between the various parties.
Prerequisite(s): CSI 145, CSI 152, CSI 154, CSI 156, and CSI 159 (or equivalent).

Course Outcomes

Identify who is interested in an architecture (the stakeholders) and classify what is important (their concerns), and design an architecture that reflects and balances their different needs.
Examine and Categorize these needs into system requirements.
Communicate the architect through illustrations and other artifacts (the architectural description).
Articulate what is architecturally significant, safely leaving other aspects of the design to your designers, without neglecting issues like performance, resilience, and location.