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Nesi 6111:this Course Introduces Some Of The Implementation Options Available For Information Systems, Focusing On Composition And Re-use Rather Than Construction From Scratch. Students Apply Widely Used Components To Build Up-to-date Web Applications. Topics Include Common Software System Frameworks; Components And Toolsets; Open Source And Proprietary Software Ecologies; Staying Current With Communities Of Practice. Prerequisite: Object Oriented Programming For Ism Or Equivalent. Or Nsei 6110: The Architecture Of A Software System Describes Its Principal Components And Their Relationships. This Course Overviews The Architectural Styles, Domain-specific Architectures, Product-line Architectures, And The Role Of Architecture In The Design And Implementation Of Information Systems. Issues Related To Building Robust, Scalable, And Reliable Software Intensive Systems In An Effective Way Are Discussed. The Students Learn To Make Optimal Architectural Choices And Employ The Most Relevant Methods, Best Practices, And Technologies Information Systems, Regardless Of Complexity And Scale. (prerequisites: Nsei 3381 Or Equivalent)

This course focuses on the development and implementation of business strategies that enable competitive advantage, with an emphasis on understanding the current environment in which the organization competes and forecasting how that environment may change.

This course deals with the effective alignment of information systems with corporate strategy, recognizing the key role that they play in organizational effectiveness. Topics include decision processes and accountability; the allocation and management of internal and external resources; risk management; value and performance metrics; and legal, regulatory, compliance and audit issues. Prerequisite: Business Strategy for Competitive Advantage.

The capstone course provides students with the opportunity to integrate their specialization areas with other program concepts and skills in a group or solo analysis and design project. Students analyze the technical, business, policy, and social considerations inherent in their project. Prerequisites: Service and Sourcing Management; completion of a two-course specialization track.

This course serves the dual purpose of introducing students to studying online at Walden as well as introducing them to some of the fundamental issues and trends in Information Systems Management. Students explore information systems issues and cases in the extended enterprise, with emphasis on services in a supply chain context and on stakeholder perspectives. The course also helps students develop their professional information and communication skills.

This course examines the structure and operations of organizations from an information processing point of view, and develops students' skills in analyzing, designing, and improving operations. Topics include fundamental business structures; business process design, management, and optimization; decision support and automation; enterprise resource planning and integration. Prerequisite: The IT-Enabled Enterprise.

This course focuses on the "front end" of information system and service design: understanding user and customer behaviors and requirements, and designing the functions and interfaces that support them. Topics include requirements analysis; contextual design and user modeling; iterative design; human-computer interaction. Prerequisites: Business Architecture and Process; Software Frameworks.

This course focuses on the "back end" of information system and service design: mapping the desired functions onto systems structures that have desirable properties. Topics include system architecture processes and idioms; mapping architectures onto implementations; design for reliability, security, modularity, scalability. Prerequisite: Information System and Service Analysis and Design.

In this course, students place their technical and process work in a human context, focusing on issues and impacts in a broader domain. Topics include organizational behavior and change; intellectual property issues; ethics, professionalism, and social impact; privacy and security. Prerequisite: Business Architecture and Process.

Students develop the skills needed to plan, lead, and manage an information systems project. Topics include estimation, budgeting, and scheduling; risk management; team leadership; engineering process management; open source processes. Prerequisite: System and Service Architecture.

Students learn to manage projects and programs that span multiple organizations. Topics include process and best practices for qualification, acceptance, and assurance; service level agreements; relationship management; supply chain strategy. Prerequisite: Information Systems Project Management.

The course is an introduction to computer logic and programming for client-side web pages. Students learn fundamental concepts and practices, algorithmic thinking, and web programming through hands-on practice. This course also overviews many general technical aspects of the computing disciplines.

Students learn the fundamental concepts and practices of programming in an object oriented language through substantial hands-on practice. Topics include fundamental models of hardware and software; representation of information and procedures; basic processes of software design and construction; object class design, selection and use; use of documentation, software libraries and system frameworks; use of software development tool chains.