The following are not essential texts but will provide useful background reading:
Systems Analysis and Design : Techniques, Methodologies, Approaches, and Architectures (Available as e-book in University library), Chiang, Roger Siau, Keng Hardgrave, Bill C. 2009 , M.E. Sharpe, Inc. eISBN: 9780765623768 (Edition: 4)
Designing Effective Database Systems (Available as e-book in University library), Riordan, R.M., 2005, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN-10: 0321290933 , ISBN-13: 978-0321290939 (Edition: 1)
Information Systems Development: Methodologies, Techniques and Tools, Avison, G., Fitzgerald D.,2006. McGraw-Hill, ISBN-10: 0077114175, ISBN-13: 978-0077114176 (Edition: 4)

To be in related employment

An appropriate CASE tool

The assessment will be designed to meet the learning outcomes of the module in the context of the student's employment. The precise details will be drawn up on a learning contract. The contract will detail the precise form of the assessment and the assessment criteria to be used for marking.

- Systems Analysis and Design in Context:
o What constitutes a system?
o The history of systems development
o Reasons for system failure.
- The traditional systems development lifecycle real life Agile techniques
o Requirements elicitation and specification
o Introduction to method related techniques: eg. mind maps, entity relationship models, dataflow diagrams, use case models
o The formal documentation of a system resulting from the application of tools and techniques of the systems development lifecycle
o Use of a chosen notation, for example, structured systems analysis and design methodology (SSADM), the UML
o Introduction to the corresponding documentation, for example process descriptions, entity descriptions, use case descriptions to complete the model
- Introduction to the concept and use of a Database Management systems (DBMS)
o SQL: DML, DDL and DCL
o Developing applications with database tools
o Information Retrieval
o Levels of Information
o Information Management
o Use of Information
- Systems Architectures
- System testing methods

"It is expected that the minimum academic contact time for this module will be 52 hours but the precise delivery mechanism is left flexible for each centre to choose a strategy suitable for the students involved. The precise learning strategies will be drawn up on the learning contract. The following is a guideline: - You will have a named academic module tutor. - You will complete a work-based learning agreement to ensure that arrangements are in place at your workplace to facilitate your work-based learning. - It is anticipated that broad coverage of the indicative content will be achieved through seminar sessions (which will include individual and group activities, discussions and case study analysis) and directed reading in order to gain and extend knowledge in areas of the indicative content not covered in depth by the classroom teaching. - You will be encouraged to discuss aspects of the module within discussion forums that are part of the VLE. These forums will allow discussion with a student's peer group as well as the module tutor. Where group work is required you will be expected to utilise the VLE and other means of electronic communication to facilitate this. - In addition to completing the assessment, work based learning will usually include working through preparatory exercises and tasks in a module work-book guided by a work-based Mentor. - Employer Feedback Forms will be completed by the work-based mentor to provide formative feedback. - This feedback will be discussed at regular reviews (usually at least two per learning block) with your academic module tutor."