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BUSINESS SCHOOL

Information Systems Development

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 ICFAI SDLC
BUSINESS SCHOOL 1

System
Identification, 2
Selection, Planning

System Analysis 3

System Design 4

1. RFP System
2. DFD, ERD Etc. Implementation
3. SM, UM, TD
4. UASO

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 ICFAI System Analysis
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• Requirement Determination
Planning • Requirement Structuring
• Alternative Gen. & Selection
Requirement
Study
System
Analysis
System
Design

Development

Data
Integration

Testing

Deployment

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 ICFAI Deliverables for Process Modeling
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1 Data Flow Diagram

2 Entity Relationship Diagram

3 Structured Logic

4 User Interface (Forms, Reports, Menus,

Dialogues)
5 Manuals and Documentation

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Procedures

 By-product technique

 Null Approaches

 Key Indicator System

 Total Study Process

 Critical Success factors (CSF)

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 System Analysis
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Techniques
 Collect System
Requirements
 Interviews
 Questionnaires
 Observations
 Document analysis
 Existing systems
 Model Organizational Data
 Entity Relationship modeling
 Define Business Rules
 Data Flow Modeling
 Data/Function Access Modeling
 Process Modeling

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 Define Critical Success Factors (CSF)

 Organizational level
 Department level
 Individual level
 Joint Application Development (JAD)
 Group meeting with user community
 Reduces requirement collection time
 Conflicting requirements can be resolved
 Difficult get all users together at the same
time

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 ICFAI Case
BUSINESS SCHOOL

Hoosier Burgers food ordering system is concerned

about accepting customer orders. The waiter
receiving order transfers the order to kitchen and at
the same time the goods sold and inventory files are
updated. The customer is provided a receipt on
payment of the order amount. The Restaurant
manager looks at daily inventory changes and goods
sold data to make sure that stocks are adequate and
business is smoothly running.
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 ICFAI DFD Mechanics
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CUSTOMER KITCHEN

Customer FOOD Food Order

Order ORDERING
SYSTEM

Receipt

Management
Reports

RESTURANT
MANAGER

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 ICFAI DFD Symbols
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Process

Data
Store

Source / Sink

Data Flow

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 ICFAI DFD Dos and Don’ts
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Incorrect Correct

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 ICFAI DFD Dos and Don’ts
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Incorrect Correct

A A

B A
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 ICFAI DFD Dos and Don’ts
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Incorrect Correct

A A

B A

A B

A A
A A

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 ICFAI DFD Context – 0th Level
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CUSTOMER KITCHEN

Customer FOOD Food Order

Order ORDERING
SYSTEM

Receipt

Management
Reports

RESTURANT
MANAGER

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 ICFAI DFD 1st Level
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CUSTOME
R KITCHEN
1.0
Customer
Order Receive
order Food Order
Receipt

2.0 3.0
Update Update
Goods Inventory
Sold File Goods Inventory File
Sold Data

Goods Sold 4.0 Inventory

D2 D1
File Inventory Data File
Goods Sold Produce
Data Manageme Daily Inventory movement
Daily Goods nt Reports
Sold Management
MANAGER
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Reports
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1.1 1.3
Customer Transform Food Order
Receive
Customer Order to
Order
Customer Order Kitchen
order
Format

Customer Customer
Order Customer Order
Order
1.2 1.4 1.5
Inventory
Generate Generate Generate
Data
Customer Goods Sold Inventory
Receipt Data Changes

Goods Sold
Data
Receipt

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 ICFAI DFD Considerations
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• DFD Decomposition
• Balancing DFDs
• Process cannot store data
• External entities can be triggers
• Delays shown by data stores
• Element repetition indicated by
crossing

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 ICFAI Types of DFDs
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• Current Physical

• Current Logical

• New Logical

• New Physical

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 ICFAI Case Assignment
BUSINESS SCHOOL

Superior builders Limited (SBL) is a medium sized company selling

building materials to construction industry. SBL purchases materials
from specialist suppliers and resells to customers in convenient
quantities. Its USPs are its ability to deliver goods at customer
premises and act as a single source for a wide variety of
construction materials. The business is good and the company
wants open five more branches this year. A study is revealed that

1.Most of the company’s processes are manual.

2.They run their payroll on a computer which has a spare capacity
3.They use RDBMS package for running applications.
4.It has about 500 customers.
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5. Customers usually telephone or mail their orders. Order clerks take

down the order on a standard order form and price the items using a
price catalog.

6. The orders are accepted only after approval by the credit control
section.
7. Approved orders are passed stock control department where qty is
checked against stock levels. If the stock is not sufficient then the whole
order line becomes outstanding.

8. The remainder of the order is accepted and passed to invoicing.

9. Order Items are copied to standard invoice forms and priced as per
price catalog. The invoice is prepared in quadruplicate: (Original goes to
customer, 1st copy goes to accounts to maintain sales ledger, 3rd and 4th
copy go to the warehouse.)
10. The sales ledger keeps account of each customer’s ordering and
payment status. A monthly statement of transaction during the month
with reminder for overdue payments is sent to the customer.
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