Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives At the completion of this subject students should know the nature and components of the system design and implementation process; understand current developments in process quality control methods; know about current developments in the establishment of national and international standards; appreciate the various available management control metrics including process quality assessment metrics.
Synopsis Design issues: examine and evaluate various system design methodologies and their importance to commercially-based software, namely structured design, object-oriented design and Jackson-system design. Other design issues will include: why bother to design? can design methodologies cope with evolutionary development? user participation design; designing for the wrong processes.
Assessment Practical work: 100%