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Ask a Software Engineer what systems analysis is and they will probably respond by telling you that it is an important stage of the software development lifecycle.
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Ask a Software Engineer what systems analysis is and they will probably respond by telling you that it is an important stage of the software development lifecycle. A project manager would tell you that a system encapsulates and implements business logic in order to produce a set objective. Ask a politician or a psychologist and they may not even mention a computer; a politician may see a system as an item that reaches over economic, sociological and political boundaries. It is worth noting for a system to be analysed, it does not necessarily have to have a computerised element. A wrist watch or even an ant colony could be viewed as a system; each fits Ian Sommerville's definition: "A system is a purposeful collection of interrelated components that work together to achieve some objective". Sommerville: Software Engineering No mention of computers, but often the components refers to software sub-systems, human resources,...
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