CSPP 51089: Business Systems Analysis
Instructor: Peter Vassilatos
Office Hours: by appointment
email at cs.uchicago.edu: pete
Class Meetings:
Thursday, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Ryerson 277

Course Website, Autumn 2008

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Overview

Autumn 2008

This course details current theory and practice for business and requirements analysis as part of the software development lifecycle. Content is organized around an enterprise architecture framework (Zachman) and focuses on the analysis and management of business needs for software systems, with a secondary focus on enterprise business modeling. We also discuss process and tooling considerations for business analysis activities, and the professional role of the business analyst in industry.

Required Texts

There will be extensive required reading from the following texts:

 

Recommended/Supplementary Texts

Recommendations for additional texts will be provided as we cover specific topics.