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BSA/515

Acquisition, Development and Implementation of IS

Course level: Graduate

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Information Technology

Online

Format

$2,094

Estimated Tuition

3 credits

Total credits

6 weeks

Course length

Take this course on its own, or as part of a degree or certificate program.

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This course focuses on the practices for acquiring, developing, testing, and implementing information systems to meet the organization's strategies and objectives. Topics include business case development, supplier selection, project management, and controls.

This course is aligned to the Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Implementation domain of the ISACA CISA job practice areas.

Prerequisites

This graduate level course requires proof of completion of a Bachelor's degree. Be prepared to provide documentation during the checkout process.

Required materials

The materials required for this course are covered in your resource fees.

Please Note: Attendance and participation are mandatory in all University courses, and specific requirements may differ by course. If attendance requirements are not met, a student may be removed from the course. Please review the Course Attendance Policy in the Catalog for more information.

University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.

Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.

  • Investigate benefits realization techniques.
  • Investigate project and portfolio management techniques.
  • Create a business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, and implementation.

  • Examine project governance mechanisms and project control frameworks, practices, and tools.
  • Determine risk management practices.
  • Create project management practices and controls that promote cost-effective and risk acceptable systems development efforts.

  • Examine project success factors and risk.
  • Examine risk management practices.
  • Construct reviews to determine project progress.

  • Examine controls for IT architecture, requirements analysis, systems development methodologies and tools, and testing.
  • Examine acquisition practices.
  • Design controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases.

  • Distinguish between configuration and release management practices.
  • Examine systems migration and release management practices.
  • Examine data conversion tools and techniques.
  • Create an implementation plan.

  • Investigate project closure practices.
  • Examine performance measurement practices.
  • Formulate a post-implementation review plan.

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