James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

CO2801:03

Business Information Systems Development

Townsville, Cairns

26 lectures, 12 tutorials, 12 practicals. First semester. Also offered at Holmes College in Sydney and Melbourne, first and second semester and January/February intensive block mode.

Staff: Mr J Roberts (Townsville campus); Mr  J  Hamilton (Cairns campus).

The determination of systems requirements in a business context and the design and implementation of an operational system.

Learning Objectives:

  1. describe the core activities in the development process for business information systems;
  2. describe and use the tools and techniques required for the analysis and design of effective business information systems;
  3. demonstrate an ability to prepare the functional system specification for a business information system to be implemented with the aid of CASE software.

Assessment by class test/s (15%); assignment/s (20%); final examination (65%).