The Importance of IS Management

Prentice Hall, Inc.

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Foundations of System Development

nDiscipline through structured development

nFigure 9-1 is the classic system development life cycle (waterfall approach)

nThe Traditional Application Development Approach (characteristics):

1. Hand coding in third generation language, e.g. COBOL

2. “Structured Programming” development methodology

3. Automated Project management system

4. A database management system