The Advanced Professional Certificate in System Analysis and Design aims to introduce the learner to the concepts of system analysis and design with the advanced knowledge of project management for the successful design, development and implementation of organizational systems.

The learner will be able to understand and develop key diagrams for the new designs for organizational systems and will be able to integrate socio-technical behaviour to understand both the technical requirements and that of human requirements of any system development and implementation.

Learning Outcomes

After the successful completion of the certificate, the student will be able to learn:

• Explain project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting
• Describe work breakdown structures, task patterns, and critical path analysis
• Explain techniques for estimating task completion times and costs
• Describe various scheduling tools, including Gantt charts and PERT/CPM charts
• Analyze task dependencies, durations, start dates, and end dates
• Understand the aim of systems analysis and design for the design of information systems.
• Describe the purpose of the system development life cycle (SDLC)
• Explain the six core processes that make up the SDLC
• Explain Agile methodologies
• Describe iterative system development
• Identify key documents used in planning a project
• Identify key diagrams used in systems analysis and systems design.
• The nature of success and failure in IT systems
• The socio-technical nature of IT systems, in that they incorporate hardware, software, organisational, social and human components
• The legal, social, ethical and professional contexts, in which IT systems are acquired, developed and deployed.