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Title: Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World, Second Edition by John W. Satzinger, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen D. Burd ISBN: 0-619-06309-2 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 25 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $92.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.22 (9 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: It's a Great Book for future IT Project Managers
Comment: I have read the book, have been working out in the field for a little over a couple years now, and everything in the book is true. Looking over the reviews, it becomes very clear that their expectations were incorrect to begin with. Let me explain what you will not get:
-You will not get a book on Object Oriented programming. That's why there are java and .Net books out there.
-You will not get a database programming book.

In short, you will get a book that deals with a number of issues that Systems Analysts deal with every day. Therefore, it deals with more 'soft skills', teaching one how to deal with IT problems from a technical manager's perspective. It's like a tool set for the analyst.

In the end, it complements a technical book very well (since it fills in the holes left with a technical book.)

Rating: 4
Summary: Better than most System Analysis Design texts
Comment: Most of the other textbooks are outdated. The logical structure flow of the book is very good. I use it in my course, taught at the College level. Students have no problem following the book. Examples are good and exercises are clear. The only bad point, the treatment of databases, is light. It will be better if Oracle, SAP, DB2, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Baan, Sybase ... can be included in details. I would recommend to all my colleagues and students.

Rating: 1
Summary: Systems Analysis and Design Rendered Incomprehensible
Comment: The manner of presentation in "Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World" always starts in mid-stream, assuming far too much previous specialized business and technical knowledge on the part of the student. Concepts appear at the beginning of chapters like thunderbolts out of the blue, with little context to help the student understand the actual meaning or significance of the ideas.

Instead of presenting the evidence and steps of reasoning that led up to the concepts and principles in a clear and simple way, the student is given a succession of unmanageable assertions encoded in jargon-filled terminology, to be retained as frozen dogma.

The style and flavor of the writing is extremely artificial and pedantic (at times I found myself asking whether the book was written by a human or generated by a computer). Consequently, most students end up trying to memorize the content without understanding what it actually means or how it applies.

The only positive quality I can attribute to this book is that it presents the phases of systems analysis and design in logical sequence. What it fails to do is explain how each of the principles was discovered by reasoning from observation in a clear, comprehensible and conversational way.

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