Effective Use Case Development
Course Title: Effective Use Case Development
Course #: BAI14
Duration: 2 days
Overview:
This 2-day course is designed to provide students with intensive, practical training in the concepts of requirements specification through use cases. During the course, the students write at least three non-trivial use cases. At course completion, students will have a comprehensive understanding of use cases, how to write useful and effective use cases, and both their value and limitations in either procedural or object-oriented development lifecycles. This course has been endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) as compliant with the Business Analyst Book of Knowledge (BABOK).
Topics:
Project Failure and Success Factors
Executive Summary of Use Cases
The many dimensions of requirements
Distinguishing the two different types of actors
Writing use case descriptions
Finding Functional Requirements From Use Cases
Major mistakes in use case development
CASE tools and use cases
Wrap up
Audience:
Business or system analysts, technical managers, and software developers who wish to learn techniques for capturing requirements for software system development.
Prerequisites:
Experience in requirements gathering, or systems analysis is desirable, but not mandatory.
Course #: BAI14
Duration: 2 days
Overview:
This 2-day course is designed to provide students with intensive, practical training in the concepts of requirements specification through use cases. During the course, the students write at least three non-trivial use cases. At course completion, students will have a comprehensive understanding of use cases, how to write useful and effective use cases, and both their value and limitations in either procedural or object-oriented development lifecycles. This course has been endorsed by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) as compliant with the Business Analyst Book of Knowledge (BABOK).
Topics:
Project Failure and Success Factors
Executive Summary of Use Cases
The many dimensions of requirements
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- Use Cases are not diagrams
- Where do use cases fit?
- Use cases and traditional specifications
- Why use cases alone are not enough!
- Using an event analysis model
- Discovering actors & major use cases
- Actors
- Actor-to-use case associations
- Use case-to-use case associations
- <<include>> and <<extend>>
- Generalization
- Does the diagram have value?
Distinguishing the two different types of actors
Writing use case descriptions
- The Three 'C's
- Style and templates
- Scope and presentation format
- Use cases must have goals
- System-level vs. business-level use cases
- Adding exceptions to use cases
- Procedural use cases
- State-based use cases
Finding Functional Requirements From Use Cases
Major mistakes in use case development
- Top Six use case pitfalls and abuses
- Where UML can lead you astray
- Just who should write the use cases?
- Use cases are directly testable
- Use cases and scenarios
- Scenarios and test cases
CASE tools and use cases
Wrap up
Audience:
Business or system analysts, technical managers, and software developers who wish to learn techniques for capturing requirements for software system development.
Prerequisites:
Experience in requirements gathering, or systems analysis is desirable, but not mandatory.
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