Master of Information Systems Management (M.I.S.M.)

This course serves the dual purpose of introducing students to studying online at Walden and to some of the fundamental issues and trends in information systems management. Topics include information and communication skills for professionals, and information systems issues and cases in the extended enterprise. Emphasis is placed on the services supply-chain context and stakeholder perspectives.

Students in this course examine 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; and enterprise resource planning and integration. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6701.)

The architecture of a software system describes its principal components and their relationships. The overviews of this course are 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.)

The focus of this course on the “front end” of information system and service design: understanding user and customer behaviors and requirements and designing the functions and interfaces to support them. Topics include requirements analysis, contextual design and user modeling, iterative design, and human-computer interaction. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6111 and NSEI 6712.)

The focus of this course is on the “back end” of information system and service design: mapping the desired functions onto systems structures that possess desirable properties. Topics include system architecture processes and idioms; mapping architectures onto implementations; and designing for reliability, security, modularity, and scalability. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6301.)

In this course, students place their technical and process work in a human context, focusing on issues and effects in a broader domain. Topics include organizational behavior and change; intellectual property issues; ethics, professionalism, and social impact; and privacy and security. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6712.)

Students develop the skills needed to plan, lead, and manage an information systems project. Topics include estimating, budgeting, and scheduling; risk management; team leadership; engineering process management; and open-source processes. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6112.)

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; and supply chain strategy. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6511.)

Students learn key approaches to the integration of enterprise-wide information to support business strategy and decision-making. They cover issues in data acquisition, storage, retrieval, and analysis. Topics include data warehouses; data marts; dashboards, key performance indicators, and scorecards; online analytical processing; and data visualization.

Students learn and apply techniques for inference and discovery in large data sets. Topics include statistical inference, exploratory data analysis, data mining, text mining, and machine learning for predictive modeling. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6631.)

This 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.)

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; and use of software development tool chains.

This course serves the dual purpose of introducing students to studying online at Walden and to some of the fundamental issues and trends in information systems management. Topics include information and communication skills for professionals, and information systems issues and cases in the extended enterprise. Emphasis is placed on the services supply-chain context and stakeholder perspectives.

Students in this course examine 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; and enterprise resource planning and integration. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6701.)

The architecture of a software system describes its principal components and their relationships. The overviews of this course are 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.)

The focus of this course on the “front end” of information system and service design: understanding user and customer behaviors and requirements and designing the functions and interfaces to support them. Topics include requirements analysis, contextual design and user modeling, iterative design, and human-computer interaction. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6111 and NSEI 6712.)

The focus of this course is on the “back end” of information system and service design: mapping the desired functions onto systems structures that possess desirable properties. Topics include system architecture processes and idioms; mapping architectures onto implementations; and designing for reliability, security, modularity, and scalability. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6301.)

In this course, students place their technical and process work in a human context, focusing on issues and effects in a broader domain. Topics include organizational behavior and change; intellectual property issues; ethics, professionalism, and social impact; and privacy and security. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6712.)

Students develop the skills needed to plan, lead, and manage an information systems project. Topics include estimating, budgeting, and scheduling; risk management; team leadership; engineering process management; and open-source processes. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6112.)

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; and supply chain strategy. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6511.)

Students survey some of the fundamental issues and techniques in information systems security, preparing students to analyze and solve problems. Topics include issues of authentication and authorization, common vulnerabilities and attacks, prevention and detection, information security best practices, and information security and privacy technologies.

This course covers information security issues in an organizational context, recognizing the increasing stakes in keeping systems safe from tampering and disclosure. Topics include management structures and processes for enterprise information security; information security in the supply chain; legal, regulatory, audit, and policy issues; risk management; and the business case for information security. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6841.)

This 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.)

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; and use of software development tool chains.

This course serves the dual purpose of introducing students to studying online at Walden and to some of the fundamental issues and trends in information systems management. Topics include information and communication skills for professionals, and information systems issues and cases in the extended enterprise. Emphasis is placed on the services supply-chain context and stakeholder perspectives.

Students in this course examine 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; and enterprise resource planning and integration. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6701.)

The architecture of a software system describes its principal components and their relationships. The overviews of this course are 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.)

The focus of this course on the “front end” of information system and service design: understanding user and customer behaviors and requirements and designing the functions and interfaces to support them. Topics include requirements analysis, contextual design and user modeling, iterative design, and human-computer interaction. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6111 and NSEI 6712.)

The focus of this course is on the “back end” of information system and service design: mapping the desired functions onto systems structures that possess desirable properties. Topics include system architecture processes and idioms; mapping architectures onto implementations; and designing for reliability, security, modularity, and scalability. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6301.)

In this course, students place their technical and process work in a human context, focusing on issues and effects in a broader domain. Topics include organizational behavior and change; intellectual property issues; ethics, professionalism, and social impact; and privacy and security. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6712.)

Students develop the skills needed to plan, lead, and manage an information systems project. Topics include estimating, budgeting, and scheduling; risk management; team leadership; engineering process management; and open-source processes. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6112.)

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; and supply chain strategy. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6511.)

Students survey some of the fundamental issues and techniques in information systems security, preparing students to analyze and solve problems. Topics include issues of authentication and authorization, common vulnerabilities and attacks, prevention and detection, information security best practices, and information security and privacy technologies.

This course covers information security issues in an organizational context, recognizing the increasing stakes in keeping systems safe from tampering and disclosure. Topics include management structures and processes for enterprise information security; information security in the supply chain; legal, regulatory, audit, and policy issues; risk management; and the business case for information security. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6841.)

In this course, students examine the need for consistency in health data standards and the importance of appropriate identification and selection of these standards. The structure of medical and health information through effective knowledge representation is presented, with an emphasis on the practice of knowledge management and the incorporation of evidence-based best practices. The diverse terminology, ontology, acronyms, coding, and classification systems used in health information technology, both by information systems users and by those who design and maintain those systems, are examined. Topics include data communication, the development and advancement of e-health technologies, and future federal initiatives to digitalize health data.

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; and use of software development tool chains.

This course serves the dual purpose of introducing students to studying online at Walden and to some of the fundamental issues and trends in information systems management. Topics include information and communication skills for professionals, and information systems issues and cases in the extended enterprise. Emphasis is placed on the services supply-chain context and stakeholder perspectives.

Students in this course examine 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; and enterprise resource planning and integration. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6701.)

The architecture of a software system describes its principal components and their relationships. The overviews of this course are 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.)

The focus of this course on the “front end” of information system and service design: understanding user and customer behaviors and requirements and designing the functions and interfaces to support them. Topics include requirements analysis, contextual design and user modeling, iterative design, and human-computer interaction. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6111 and NSEI 6712.)

The focus of this course is on the “back end” of information system and service design: mapping the desired functions onto systems structures that possess desirable properties. Topics include system architecture processes and idioms; mapping architectures onto implementations; and designing for reliability, security, modularity, and scalability. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6301.)

In this course, students place their technical and process work in a human context, focusing on issues and effects in a broader domain. Topics include organizational behavior and change; intellectual property issues; ethics, professionalism, and social impact; and privacy and security. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6712.)

Students develop the skills needed to plan, lead, and manage an information systems project. Topics include estimating, budgeting, and scheduling; risk management; team leadership; engineering process management; and open-source processes. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6112.)

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; and supply chain strategy. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6511.)

Students learn how to organize development projects in the global service marketplace, based on key considerations and best practices in outsourced and offshore development. Topics include legal, economic, cultural, and intellectual property issues; 24-hour development; strategic division of labor; case studies of specific geographies; and quality and process standards.

Students learn the most important issues and practices for both clients and service providers. Topics include information technology and business process outsourcing, managing a services business, global human resources, service supply chain management and governance, and client relationship management.

This 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.)

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; and use of software development tool chains.

This course serves the dual purpose of introducing students to studying online at Walden and to some of the fundamental issues and trends in information systems management. Topics include information and communication skills for professionals, and information systems issues and cases in the extended enterprise. Emphasis is placed on the services supply-chain context and stakeholder perspectives.

Students in this course examine 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; and enterprise resource planning and integration. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6701.)

The architecture of a software system describes its principal components and their relationships. The overviews of this course are 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.)

The focus of this course on the “front end” of information system and service design: understanding user and customer behaviors and requirements and designing the functions and interfaces to support them. Topics include requirements analysis, contextual design and user modeling, iterative design, and human-computer interaction. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6111 and NSEI 6712.)

The focus of this course is on the “back end” of information system and service design: mapping the desired functions onto systems structures that possess desirable properties. Topics include system architecture processes and idioms; mapping architectures onto implementations; and designing for reliability, security, modularity, and scalability. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6301.)

In this course, students place their technical and process work in a human context, focusing on issues and effects in a broader domain. Topics include organizational behavior and change; intellectual property issues; ethics, professionalism, and social impact; and privacy and security. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6712.)

Students develop the skills needed to plan, lead, and manage an information systems project. Topics include estimating, budgeting, and scheduling; risk management; team leadership; engineering process management; and open-source processes. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6112.)

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; and supply chain strategy. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6511.)

The focus of this course is 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.

Students deal with the effective alignment of information systems with corporate strategy, recognizing the key role that they play in organizational effectiveness in this course. 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. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6713.)

This 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.)

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; and use of software development tool chains.

This course serves the dual purpose of introducing students to studying online at Walden and to some of the fundamental issues and trends in information systems management. Topics include information and communication skills for professionals, and information systems issues and cases in the extended enterprise. Emphasis is placed on the services supply-chain context and stakeholder perspectives.

Students in this course examine 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; and enterprise resource planning and integration. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6701.)

The architecture of a software system describes its principal components and their relationships. The overviews of this course are 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.)

The focus of this course on the “front end” of information system and service design: understanding user and customer behaviors and requirements and designing the functions and interfaces to support them. Topics include requirements analysis, contextual design and user modeling, iterative design, and human-computer interaction. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6111 and NSEI 6712.)

The focus of this course is on the “back end” of information system and service design: mapping the desired functions onto systems structures that possess desirable properties. Topics include system architecture processes and idioms; mapping architectures onto implementations; and designing for reliability, security, modularity, and scalability. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6301.)

Students develop the skills needed to plan, lead, and manage an information systems project. Topics include estimating, budgeting, and scheduling; risk management; team leadership; engineering process management; and open-source processes. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6112.)

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; and supply chain strategy. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6511.)

This course focuses on the iterative nature of the project management processes, demonstrating how an integrated approach to project management increases the likelihood of project success. The course illustrates how the project management processes and process groups intersect. Students develop a comprehensive project plan that comprises the project management knowledge areas with specific emphasis on scope, time, cost, and quality management. The course also highlights the importance of project communications management as a tool for managing stakeholder expectations.

In this course, students explore the role of budgeting and management of operations in an organizational environment. Emphasis is placed on developing budget and operational plans based on an organization’s financial data, project plans, and goals. The interdisciplinary knowledge and skills associated with achieving project goal attainment, positive operating cash flow, risk mitigation strategy, and operational alignment are developed in this course. Students are also introduced to planning considerations associated with global operations.

This course explains how to plan, analyze, respond to, and control qualitative and quantitative risk in projects. Students examine the internal risks associated with managing projects and the external risks associated with customer behavior, the supply chain, transportation and distribution channels, and acts of nature within the framework of the organization’s overall risk strategy. Students can learn about strategies for working with project stakeholders to identify and respond to risk within defined ethical and legal standards.

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® and Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® exams are comprehensive, testing the full range of practices found in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Through material review, drills, and detailed explanations, this course helps prepare students to sit confidently for both exams. It also provides students with the guidance needed to organize project management knowledge acquired through experience and coursework, fills gaps students may have in their repertoire of project management knowledge, and provides additional context for students to enhance their existing project management knowledge base. (Prerequisites: NSEI 6740. Prerequisite may be taken concurrently with this course.)

Note: Eligibility for the PMP® credential requires individuals to first attain specific educational and project management experience, including 35 contact hours of project management education and a minimum of 3 years, or 36 months, of project management experience, during which at least 4,500 hours were spent leading and directing project tasks. The final step in earning the PMP® credential is passing the PMP® exam. Eligibility for the CAPM® credential requires individuals to have a secondary diploma (high school or the global equivalent) and at least 1,500 hours experience or 23 hours of project management education. The final step in earning the CAPM® credential is passing the CAPM® exam. PMP® and CAPM® are registered certification marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. PMBOK is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
For more information, visit the Project Management Institute (PMI) Web site at www.pmi.org.

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; and use of software development tool chains.