Level 3: Use Cases & Business Modeling Techniques

Overview
Recent studies confirm a key reason for project failures is inadequate business requirements and analysis. Here is the only 4-level integrated Requirements Analysis curriculum, with 4 two-day hands-on workshops to (1) thoroughly analyze business systems needs and solutions, (2) elicit, define, and write crisp requirements, (3) apply a Use Case model, and (4) facilitate a Requirements Workshop using Joint Application Design. These team based workshops take learners from beginner to advanced levels with sound easy to apply methodology, tools, reference materials and case studies.

Objective
Most delays, cancellations and defects in systems development projects are a result of our failure to understand the project requirements. The top two causes of requirements errors are lack of input from the users and missing or incomplete requirements. In Developing Requirements with the Use Case, you will learn a better way to identify requirements and link them with a use case to improve active end user input and participation. In turn, that user involvement helps to ensure that all desired system functionality and behavior is explored and understood early on. This both drastically reduces the number of missed and misunderstood requirements and also provides a sound way to manage requirements on very complex systems.

Practical and realistic hands-on exercises and activities will allow you to refine and enhance your use case discovery and writing skills. Working in small groups, you and your peers will identify and discuss strategies and tactics that your organization should be using to better define project scope, discover requirements, and document and manage use cases.

Key Learning Points

• Identify requirements and Use Case challenges and errors
• Revisit project initiation to determine and document project scope
• Work as a team to establish appropriate level of detail in a Use Case
• Review requirements elicitation and Use Case discovery methods
• Practice discovering actors and events and normal, alternate, and exception scenarios
• Produce well written Use Case diagrams and narratives
• Learn to identify includes and extends relationships in Use Cases
• Understand how Use Cases are linked for large and/or complex systems
• Improve your ability to write high-quality statement of requirements
• See how to derive nonfunctional and system requirements from Use Cases
• Review traceability issues for Use Cases & use traceability to improve testing and quality
• Generate a plan for bringing these methods back to your organization

Recommended for
Those who define and manage systems development projects, and have completed Levels I Business Analysis and/or Level 2 Business Requirements, orhave equivalent experience. Also valuable for business customers and partners, systems architects, developers, project managers and team leaders who need advanced training in new techniques in new applications of the Use Case.