An introduction to systems development -- Systems analysis activities -- Essentials of systems design -- Projects and project management -- Advanced design and deployment concepts -- An intorduction to systems development -- From beginning to end: an overview of systems analysis and design -- Systems analysis activities -- Investigating system requirements -- use cases -- Domain modeling -- Extending the requirements models -- essentials of systems design -- Essentials of design and the design activities -- Designing the user and system interfaces -- Projects and project management -- Approaches to system development -- Project planning and project management -- Advanced design and deployment concepts -- \tObject-oriented design: principles -- Object-oriented design: use case realizations -- Databases, controls, and security -- Making the system operational -- Current trends in system development.