Information Engineering of the curricular Officers' Segment of a Unified Student Academic Database System for NPS

Abstract

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) plans to develop the Unified Student Academic Database (USAD), using an Integrated Computer-Aided Software Engineering (I-CASE) tool. USAD is intended to consolidate requirements of the Director of Programs, Registrar, Admissions Office, and Curricular Officers. The current strategy for utilizing an I-CASE tool at NPS is sub-optimal. Texas Instrument's (TI's) Information Engineering Facility (IEF), was purchased to conduct analysis and design of USAD. IEF is designed to commence with a thorough analysis of an organization's Information Strategy Plan (ISP). However, TI proclaims ISP is not essential. An investigation was conducted into the advisability of omitting the ISP phase at NPS. The Curricular Officer's USAD requirements were modeled commencing with the Business Area Analysis (BAA), the second stage of IEF. This thesis determined bypassing the ISP phase for USAD would be inappropriate. Furthermore, using I-CASE tools for a project's front-end management only is not recommended.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA245972

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  • Mary L. Hochstetler
  • Michael S. Haas

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