Information systems management
A Rouse
6 points * 4 hours per week * Second semester * Caulfield
This subject covers issues associated with effective information systems (IS) management with an emphasis on managing project-based groups. Both `people' and technical aspects of IS management are addressed. Topics include the growing importance of IS management and its changing nature; critical issues in IS management; managing in a project-based environment; reasons for successful and unsuccessful projects; project control methodologies, standards, and tools; estimating approaches and the issue of software metrics; the nature of IS quality, and means for encouraging a quality culture; `people' issues, especially those associated with managing systems professionals; the political aspects of project management; managing the introduction of new IS technologies (such as CASE, information modelling, object-oriented design).
Assessment
Examination (2 hours): 40% * Practical work and seminar participation: 60%
Prescribed texts
Rouse A Readings in information systems Dept Information Systems, Monash U, 1994