2-30 How to Develop Business Use Cases
A 2-day Skills Acquisition Experience
A use case diagram is a visual tool that shows who will interact with an evolving information technology solution. A single use case is a textual tool for representing how individual end-users and other involved parties or systems (collectively referred to as "actors") will interact with the proposed system. Knowing why you need a use case, when it should be created, and where to put what information is critical to creating good, usable use cases. Without a common understanding of the purpose and structure of use case diagrams and the textual document, use cases can quickly become "useless cases".
This seminar explains the who, what, when, where, how and why of use cases and use case diagrams. It shows where use case diagrams fit in the overall process of information system development. It includes a section on activity diagrams as a tool for visually representing the flow of control of a use case. Whether you are using use cases by themselves or as one component of a Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodology, this class will improve the quality of you delivered product.
Topics
- Define the evolving role of business systems analysts
- Use business event models to initiate and scope an IT project
- Present the transition from business events to use cases
- Document proposed user interaction in use cases and use case diagrams
- Capture basic use case information
- Apply use case diagrams as a scoping tool
- Define and describe scenarios to flush out user interaction details
- Clarify the major components of the use case
- Detail the sequence of interaction steps for the most common situation
- Determine how to handle alternate and exception situations
- Create and analyze activity diagrams to show use case flow of events
- Identify 18 business requirement categories and map them to use case components
- Review and critique use case docuemtns and use case diagrams
- Have a use case development kit for use on future projects
Who Should Attend?
- Business Analysts
- Systems Analysts
- Business Managers
- Project Leaders
- Subject Matter Experts
- End Users
- Developers
Prerequisites: None
This class can be combined with 3-50
Duration: 2 day workshop
PDUs/Contact Hours: 16 classroom training/ 10 live e-learning
Course Dates & Locations:
| Class Dates |
Time |
Location |
Cost |
Enrollment |
Registration Deadline |
| May 19-21, 2008 |
Each day 1:30-5pm plus 11am-12pm EDT intro first day |
Online |
$750 |
Call 317.275.2870 to register |
5/14/08 |
| August 18-20, 2008 |
Each day 1:30-5pm plus 11am-12pm EDT intro first day |
Online |
$750 |
Call 317.275.2870 to register |
8/13/08 |
| September 9-10, 2008 |
8:30 - 4:30 PM CDT T-W |
Chicago |
$1195 |
Register |
9/7/08 |
| December 8-10, 2008 |
Each day 1:30-5pm plus 11am-12pm EDT intro first day |
Online |
$750 |
Call 317.275.2870 to register |
12/3/08 |