Description
The two day course provides hands-on experience with use cases, today’s most widely accepted method of requirements capture. The clear style and organization of use cases makes them well suited as a source of test cases; for communicating with both business stakeholders and developers; and as a preferred choice for persistent requirements documentation on both Waterfall and agile projects that need to ‘persist’ requirements for communication with non-agile teams and for future product changes.
In this course, you’ll walk through the requirements elicitation and documentation process over the course of a project, implementing the ‘use-case’ approach used widely in the industry, methodologies and standards (e.g., the UML, RUP, MSF, Use-Case 2.0). You’ll learn that ‘use cases’ are about much more than the documentation – that they are also an effective tool for structuring and facilitating elicitation events over the course of an IT Project. You’ll learn how to phase in the analysis the ‘use-case’ way – starting from business use-case interviews that focus on business processes and services through to system use-case interviews that focus on user-IT interactions. The course also provides practical guidance on handling common analysis situations – such as how to model user authentication requirements, business rules and functional requirements when using the use-case approach.
What you will learn:
- Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with Business and System Use-Cases.
- Examine the impact of the project on the enterprise through business use-case analysis.
- Create detailed textual requirements using a Use-Case Description Template.
- Decrease software bugs and omissions introduced in the analysis phase of your project – by employing advanced use-case techniques that reduce redundancies and inconsistencies in the documentation.
- Facilitate communication of user requirements between business stakeholders and the solution provider.
- Model who-does-what with use-case diagrams.
- Understand how use-cases are used in the context of iterative development.
- Link other relevant material to use-cases – such as business entities, non-functional requirements and activity diagrams.
Audience
- IT Business Analysts
- Project Leaders
- Facilitators who will be leading requirements gathering sessions
- Business Users who will be explaining business requirements to software developers
- Systems Analysts expanding their role into the business realm.
