James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

CO2801:03

Business Information Systems Development

Townsville, Cairns, Sydney, Melbourne HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials, 12 hours practicals. Semester 1.

Staff: Mr J Roberts (Townsville 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%).