The Present State of System Analysis and Design in East Malaysia Syed Nasirin 1(B) , Esmadi A. A. Seman 1 , H. Ismail 1 , Iza A. A. Bahar 1 , Jackel C. V. Lung 1 , Nooralisa M. Tuah 1 , Abdullah M. Tahir 2 , and S. Lada 3 1 Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia {snasirin,esmadi,had,iza,jackelchew93,alisa.tuah}@ums.edu.my 2 Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia abdullahmt@ums.edu.my 3 Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia suddin@ums.edu.my Abstract. Many government agencies everywhere in the globe, including those in the developing regions, are intimately involved in developing their Information Systems (IS) projects. To favourably develop these IS projects, those agencies have spent lots of funding, forces and time to assure that they are amply equipped with the latest system design and analysis methods. However, the literature is scarce with the published evidence showing that these government agencies are claiming that they have successfully used these cultivated analysis and design techniques. The intricate system analysis and design techniques may only remain theoretical with limited use. Many of these system analysis and design techniques had never succeeded the claimed benefits made when they were acquired, which begs the principal research question of what is the present deployment state of system analysis and design in these government institutions, particularly in the developing regions? The article thus discusses the exploratory case studies on the present state of system analysis and design methods deployed by the public institutions in East Malaysia, a developing region within South-East Asia. Keywords: Developing regions · Government agencies · System analysis · System design · Analysis and design 1 Introduction Throughout the world, many government agencies are employing advanced system anal- ysis and design methods in developing their information systems (IS) projects such as web or mobile system applications [1]. To avoid IS marginal development projects or project development failure, these agencies have spent lots of funding, efforts and time to warrant that they are amply equipped themselves with the latest system design and analysis tools and techniques [2]. The need for sophisticated methods to develop there are projects is thus felt to be necessary. Various system design and analysis techniques are around, ranging from the conventional waterfall approach to some advanced techniques © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 Á. Rocha et al. (Eds.): WorldCIST 2021, AISC 1367, pp. 314–318, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72660-7_30