Information Systems Education: What’s missing? Paul H. Rosenthal Information Systems Department, California State University, Los Angeles

Do our MIS/SAD Texts Answer these Planning-Oriented Questions? Why does it cost so much? How long does it take-Why does it take so long? What makes our applications systems so complex? My Answer is NO!

What Do our MIS/SAD Texts need to Include! True Scope and Complexity of Enterprise Systems True Scope of Transaction Processing Systems Physical Systems Design Methodology Justification of Information Systems Software Estimating

This Not This Scope and Complexity of Enterprise Systems

Scope of Transaction Processing Systems NOT THIS

Scope of Transaction Processing Systems THIS

System Design: Scope

System Design: Physical Level

Software Estimation The Function Point technique

How About Project Management

We need to raise the level of content of IS curriculums so that our graduates will be able to specify, estimate, evaluate, design, and implement high quality and successful systems, and continue to reduce our industry's project failure rate