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CO1652 'Systems Analysis & Design'

This module focuses on the interaction of stakeholders and analysts during the system development lifecycle. It focussed upon the government approves model of SSADM Short for Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method, a set of standards developed in the early 1980s for systems analysis and application design widely used for government computing projects in the United Kingdom.(Wikipedia) ...and is a combination of three overlapping techniques of system representation. Further information:CO1652 at UCLAN

Systems Analysis & Design covered these topics:

Concepts of Analysis
Role of the Analyst
Role of the stakeholder
System Development Life cycle
Acquisition of Knowledge
Modeling Concepts

Logical & Physical DFD's
LDM, (Entities, Attributes & Relationships)
Entity Life History
Introduction to System Design
Hardware / Software, People and Data
Files and Data

Coursework:

	Assignment 1	Grade 76%
	Assignment 2	Grade 75%
	Yearend Exam	Grade 71%

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Module Feedback:

This was a difficult module, is was the least liked amongst classmates. SSADM albeit a governmental standard is dated, there are other, more efficient life-cycle development models, however, it is the foundation to many of its successors and a worthy course of study.