Developing requirements with use cases

Course Code: 1948

$1495

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Overview

During this two day course, participants will learn the latest proven techniques for developing use cases, discovering other types of requirements and documenting them as experts. The course helps participants get a thorough understanding of common requirements, use case pitfalls and challenges, practical approaches for discovering and writing use cases and requirements, and strategies for applying the use case methodology throughout the project life cycle.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 2 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 2 days

What You'll learn

Advance the existing knowledge of use cases and their value throughout the development life cycle
Implement practical methods for understanding user requirements
Practice state-of-the-art business and systems modeling techniques
Gain exposure to relationships among use cases, Agile methods and user stories
Overcome common use case traps and pitfalls
Explore interdependencies among use cases, other types of requirements, design elements and test cases
Leverage the power of use cases to enhance software quality with improved traceability
Apply use cases in organizational environments
Improve requirements elicitation skills
Produce high quality, readable use case documentation that serves business and IT stakeholders

Outline

Module 1: Review of requirements development with use cases

Definitions of terms
Levels and types of requirements
Characteristics of effective requirements
Requirements, use cases, and the development life cycle
Review and assess use case quality
Identify requirements associated with a use case
Use cases and Agile methods

Module 2: IT project initiation and use cases

Project scope and stakeholders: how they relate to use cases
Actor/goal definition and use cases
Event identification
User stories for agile development
Use case briefs and usage narratives
The use case diagram

Module 3: Documenting requirements with use cases

The use case preamble: the big picture
Describing the normal course (i.e., main success scenario)
Identifying and describing extension scenarios
Identifying includes (sub-function use cases) and extends relationships (extension use cases)
Linking uses cases for larger or more complex systems

Module 4: Improving use case quality

Characteristics of well-written use cases
Recognizing common problems with use cases
Avoiding use case traps and pitfalls: advice and examples
Validating use cases through reviews and inspections

Module 5: Use cases and other requirements

Deriving non-functional requirements: business rules, data definitions, interfaces, and quality attributes
Relating use cases to other requirements
Identifying design constraints
Documenting requirements and use case traceability

Module 6: Use cases and testing

Benefits of early test case development
Relating use cases to test cases
Automated tools: reducing test procedure development time and testing time

Module 7: Use cases and design elements

What are design elements?
The relationship between a use case and design elements
Functional decomposition for finding design elements
Specifying design elements from a use case
Validating requirements from user stories, use cases, and interface design

Prerequisites

Participants need to have a basic understanding of the use cases approach. Completing the Business Analysts Fundamentals course prior to taking up this course could be beneficial.