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SA&D Blog: Week 3
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

This week, I’ll reflect on the topics that I’ve looked during Week 3 of this subject. In these weeks, we looked at the topic of Requirements Gathering (or in some circles, Requirements Re-engineering…which I think is a little excessive, but I’ll spare you from the opinion rant).
I’ll try and make shorter than the last!
System requirements […]

SA&D Blog: Week 1 and 2
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Week 1
The first two weeks of FIT2001 entailed the nature and contexts of Systems Analysis and Design. The role of the systems analyst was discussed, as well as the methologies and tools used in the analysis of systems.
One thing that I had reinforced was the distinct definitions between a system, an information system and information […]

Corporate Social Responsibility - for the stakeholder or shareholder?
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

The concept of being a good corporate citizen has such a wide spectrum of thoughts and opinions with proponents and opponents for any given stance in this spectrum. Broadly speaking, there are two viewpoints: the shareholder and the stakeholder models of corporate social responsibility (CSR). There is, as Mintzberg (2001) points out, much middle […]

Summer Semester - FIT2002
Monday, January 7th, 2008

Who could’ve thought the Project Management involved so much mathematics? Network Theory! Gah!

University Results - for the year!
Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Yay. Less stress now!…well, until summer that is.
Just a quick wrap-up of my results to date:

FIT1001
COMPUTER SYSTEMS
97
HD

FIT1002
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
97
HD

FIT1006
BUSINESS INFORMATION ANALYSIS
83
HD

FIT1013
IT FOR BUSINESS
87
HD

FIT1003
IT IN ORGANIZATIONS
72
D

FIT1004
DATABASE
88
HD

FIT1005
NETWORKS AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS
91
HD

MGC1010
MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS
80
HD

=D