Systems analysis and design course: a project orientation

This paper describes a systems analysis and design course that requires students to engage in the analysis of a real-life business problem that motivates a computer information system solution, and then design such an information system. However, to facilitate what could be a major undertaking for any student, the students are engaged in a sequence of projects in which the real-life project is the final project. The sequence progresses in difficulty, allowing the students to accumulate the necessary experience and to learn the needed tools to complete the final real-life project.

[French, German and Spanish translations of this abstract can be found on pp. 87–89]