1. AUDITING SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT Introduction And Overview

2. COURSE ADMINISTRATION
Course administrator
Messages
Ladies/Gents washrooms
Lunch, tea and coffee
Smoking
Delegate/trainee introductions
Course evaluation sheets
Groups

3. Module objectives To learn how information systems are -
planned
designed and developed, and
brought into operation
To understand the audit issues

4. Topics to be covered IT project failures
Feasibility and project initiation
Specification and procurement
Design, development
System building and acceptance testing
System implementation
The Post Implementation Review
Rapid Application Development (“RAD”)

5. System development The Feasibility Study Strategic Planning for IS/IT
covered in IT methods
Life-cycle
Review and update
Develop/procure and implement

6. Approaches The “Waterfall” - Rapid Application Development (“RAD”)
traditional ‘step by step’ approach
fully specified systems
Rapid Application Development (“RAD”)
iteration (“suck it and see”)
80/20 rule on functionality
extensive use of CASE

7. The Waterfall
Specify needs
Design
Develop
Test
Implement
Fix

8. Rapid Application Development
Feasibility
study
Iterates
Functional
model
Implement
Iterates
Design
& build
Iterates

9. Summary
Module aims to provide an understanding of the audit issues
but , difficult judgements are involved
the Waterfall approach
Rapid Application Development