ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS

ACFN 4121 CREDIT=3

B. A., Accounting and Finance, 4th Year First
Semester
CHAPTER-THREE
THE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

PROF.DR.CHINNIAH ANBALAGAN
PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNITNG AND FINANCE
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
SAMARA UNIVERSITY, AFAR, ETHIOPIA EAST AFRICA
MAIL ID: DR.CHINLAKSHANBU@GMAIL.COM
 System Development Process
A set of activities, methods, best practices,
deliverables, and automated tools that
stakeholders use to develop and maintain
information systems and software.
General Problem solving Approach
– Identify the problem.
– Analyze and understand the problem.
– Identify solution requirements or expectations.
– Identify alternative solutions and choose the
“best” course of action.
– Design the chosen solution.
– Implement the chosen solution.
– Evaluate the results. If the problem is not solved,
return to step 1 or 2 as appropriate.
System Development and Problem solving
 Project and Process Management
• System development process must be managed on a
project-by-project basis.
• Project Manager should ensure that system is developed
on time, within budget, and with acceptable quality.
• Activity of defining, planning, directing, monitoring, and
controlling a project is called Project Management.
• Process management is the ongoing activity that defines,
improves, and coordinates the use of an organization’s
chosen methodology.
• Project management and process management overlap of
all the process phases.
System Development Process Review
System initiation

System analysis

System design

System implementation
 System Initiation
• Begins when a business need or opportunity is
identified.
• Information system requires a significant time,
effort, and economic investment.
• Establishes scope and the problem solving plan.
• Specifies schedule and budget that must be made to
successfully complete the project.
• Project Managers, System analysts and system
owners are the primary stakeholders in a system
analyst.
 System Analysis
• Study of a business problem domain to recommend
improvements.
• Specifying the business requirements and priorities for
the solution.
• A detailed blueprint of various processes of the
software is developed.
• Project team determines the end user requirements.
• Physical system is designed with the help of the logical
design prepared by system analysts.
 Systems Design
• Specification or construction of a technical, computer-
based solution for the business requirements identified in
a system analysis.
• Design functions and operations are described in detail,
including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams
and other documentation.
• The design takes the form of working prototype.
• All system designs should conform to the IT standard
architecture.
• Technology drivers closely impact the design process and
decisions.
 Systems Implementation
• System implementation is the construction,
installation, delivery of a system into
production.
• New hardware or software is installed and
tested.
• Should meet user requirements and
expectations.
 System Support and continuous
improvement
• Information systems face a lifetime of support and
continuous improvement.
• Users will find errors (bugs) and you discover, on occasion,
design and implementation flaws that require attention
and fixes.
• Business and user requirements constantly change.
• Need for Continuously improve and formation system until
it becomes obsolete.
• A change in system is called enhancement or maintenance
project.
• Consumes greater time, effort and money.
Sequential versus Iterative Development
• Waterfall development
approach an approach to
systems analysis and design
that completes each phase one
after another and only once .

• Iterative development
approach an approach to
systems analysis and design
that completes the entire
information system in
successive iterations.
Thank You 