PA105 Management and Ergonomy of IS in Small Organizations

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2019

The course is not taught in Spring 2019

Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Král, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Eva Hladká, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Supplier department: Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 175 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/175, only registered: 0/175, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/175
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The lecture deals with business and management processes and related information systems development in small to medium enterprises (software users as well as software vendors). The presented knowledge is also useful in many further organizations except very large enterprises. The main topics are: pragmatic risk management in (information system) projects, agile business and software processes, agile software engineering, data quality, usability and user interface, computer ergonomics, IT standards, pragmatic risk management, challenges caused by legislative, empirical laws of ICT, limits of project parameters estimation, team work, pace of ICT knowledge changes. The effects of the presented facts are demonstrated on real-life IT projects stories.
Syllabus
  • Software ergonomics and related issues in IS develpment.
  • Risk management and critical requirements.
  • User interface (UI) tier and its development. UI via a third party system, UI as a service, advantages of coarse grained UI.
  • In situ requirement specifications
  • Software processes, CMM, Software processes in SOA, the use of open source software.
  • Data quality, legislative issues of (personal) data protection, data quality issues in information system, statistical aspects of data quality. Data quality and the concept of critical chain in project management.
  • Team work, opportunities and issues of team software development, team roles, variants of software development teams, team psychology and agile attitudes, “nonproductive investments”.
  • SW metrics and their use, limits of SW metrics quality, software physics laws, problems of the estimations based on SW metrics, the estimation of the basic project attributes (effort, terms, maintenance, ..)
  • Marketing aspects of SW development, SW architectures and the structure of business agreements, bottom up incremental development, scrum, common features of SOA for small firms and of e-government.
  • Software standards and the processes of theif development and use, legislative issues, unexpected ICT effects and failures, dynamics of the changes of IT, future of IT jobs.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • IAN, Sommerville. Software Engineering. 9th ed. Upper Sadle River: Addison-Wesley, 2010, 780 pp. ISBN 0-13-703515-2. info
  • SCHWALBE, Kathy. Řízení projektů v IT (Information Technology Project Management). Computer Press, 2007, 632 pp. ISBN 978-80-251-2882-4. info
  • KRÁL, Jaroslav. Informační systémy :specifikace, realizace, provoz. 1. vyd. Veletiny: Science, 1998, 358 s. ISBN 80-86083-00-4. info
    not specified
  • BASL, Josef. Podnikové informační systémy : podnik v informační společnosti. 2nd ed. Praha: Grada, 2008, 283 pp. ISBN 978-80-247-2279-5. info
  • SMEJKAL, V and K RAIS. Řízení rizik. 1st ed. Praha: Grada, 2003, 270 pp. ISBN 80-247-0198-7. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussion.
Assessment methods
Written exam. Discussions. Three automated tests during lectures, where at least two must be filled in and scored at least 50% points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Course is no more offered.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017.
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