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

2. 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!

3. 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

4. This Not This Scope and Complexity of Enterprise Systems

5. Scope of Transaction Processing Systems NOT THIS

6. Scope of Transaction Processing Systems THIS

7. System Design: Scope

8. System Design: Physical Level

9. Software Estimation The Function Point technique

10. How About Project Management

11. 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