This Global Edition has been edited to include enhancements making it more relevant to students outside the United States. The editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators from around the globe to include:
New! Coverage of open source communities New! Coverage of time estimation techniques for project management New! Focus on how service-oriented architecture and cloud computing are changing the nature of information systems design
Now in the ninth edition, Systems Analysis and Design concisely presents the latest systems development methods, tools and techniques to students in an engaging and easy-to-understand manner.
This is a decent beginner's book into systems analysis. I've used it for three classes and it has proven quite useful when it came time to applying what I had read. When I first got this book I thought it was going to be pretty useless since I felt there was no way it was as in depth material wise as I would have liked, but I was happily surprised by how useful the lessons were. The most important lesson I've learned is how important visually showing a flow diagram is and how to make one. There have been other lessons but I don't want to give too much away haha. It can get pretty boring at times because some topics are more interesting than others but that's quite common in textbooks. Honestly I would have liked more visuals in the book when it explains how to visually present topics instead of just talking/explaining to someone else then but that is just personal preference. This book may prove very useful to information systems and computer science students so it is worth a read for anyone interested in those fields of study.
This book is not up to snuff. The Kendalls skim the mobile analysis and design in favor of focusing on enormous systems. It's a good basic book, but the 2014 edition (which is QUITE expensive) should be more relevant to what most of us are actually going to be doing.
Excelente libro sobre ingenieria de software es una de las 2 referencias bibliograficas para los examenes de egreso de la Ingenieria en Sistemas Computacionales me sirvio de mucha ayuda para pasar mi examen de titulación. Ampliamente recomendado
This book was interesting, in that it showed me that an entire industry was created from what I did in the I.T. field a few years back. Just wish I'd thought about it in an academic framework, I'd be rich.