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    The document discusses the design stage of the systems development life cycle. It describes creating a high-level representation of the system including users, processes, data, and technology. Various design tools are used to model the system such as context diagrams, data flow diagrams, decision trees, and data dictionaries. The data dictionary defines each data element. Design tools help specify the system's information processes and determine the required information technology.

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    The document discusses the design stage of the systems development life cycle. It describes creating a high-level representation of the system including users, processes, data, and technology. Various design tools are used to model the system such as context diagrams, data flow diagrams, decision trees, and data dictionaries. The data dictionary defines each data element. Design tools help specify the system's information processes and determine the required information technology.

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    The document discusses the design stage of the systems development life cycle. It describes creating a high-level representation of the system including users, processes, data, and technology. Various design tools are used to model the system such as context diagrams, data flow diagrams, decision trees, and data dictionaries. The data dictionary defines each data element. Design tools help specify the system's information processes and determine the required information technology.

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    Lecture 3

    Source: PEC IPT Preliminary Course – Samuel Davis & Jacaranda IPT Preliminary Course
    IPT Preliminary – Carole Wilson
     Understanding the Problem
     Planning or Making Decisions
     Designing Solutions
     Implementing Solutions
     Testing, Evaluating and Maintaining
     Third stage of SDLC where actual solution is designed and built
     Big picture representation
    • Environment in which the system will operate
    • Purpose
    • Users of the new system
    • Information processes to be used
    • Participants of the new system
    • Data used
    • Information technology
     All the hardware and software resources
     Design process differ according to the system development approach
     For all approaches, new system’s information processes should be
    identified
     Design tools are used to create system models
    e.g. Context diagram, data flow diagram etc.

     Data and information used and produced is defined within a data


    dictionary
     Once processing and data/information is known, information
    technology is determined
     Context diagrams
     Data flow diagrams
     Decision trees
     Decision tables
     Data dictionaries
     Storyboards
     Decisions are made when one alternative is chosen from a
    range of possible alternatives
     Decision trees and decision tables document the logic upon
    which decisions are made and describe a set of rules
     Decision trees represent the rules, conditions and actions as a
    diagram
     Decision tables use a two-dimensional table
     Used to detail each of the data items used by the system
     Each row describes a particular data item and each column
    describes an attribute or detail and data type etc.
     Data dictionaries are mostly used when designing a database
     They are also used together with other design tools like context
    diagrams
    e.g. to specify details of each data flow in a context or data flow diagram
    Field Name Data Type Field Description
    Size
    Employee ID Number 4 digit number
    First Name Text 20
    Last Name Text 30
    Date Of Birth Date/Time In dd/mm/yyyy format
    Address Text 100
    Suburb Text 30
    Post code Text 4
    State Text 3
    Mobile Phone Text 12 In 04xx xxx xxx format
    Home Phone Text 14 In (0x) xxxx xxxx format
     Are used for designing user interface
     Document the layout of elements on individual screens and
    also the connections between screens
     Are often hand drawn sketches showing placement of each
    screen element
     Software applications are available for creating storyboards too
     Can also include diagram that show the navigational links
    between screens

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