Course Description
Requirements Modelling using Use Cases

Overview

Requirements Modeling & Analysis is one of the most important and often most neglected activities of the software development life cycle. A good requirements model fosters communication between the business and IT by enabling them to share a common vision of the system’s solution prior to implementation. This will ensure that the systems meets the business needs, can be delivered on time, and have the level of quality and flexibility to easily accommodate future business needs.

This workshop will provide your team with the practical skills necessary to effectively, and efficiently capture, model and analyse requirements with Use Cases. You will leave with understanding how to communicate better with business experts, systems analysts, designers and developers, and create use case-driven software requirements which naturally translate into system designs.

You will learn how to identify and translate business goals and needs into system features, and use them to derive both functional and nonfunctional (technical) system requirements. You will learn how to effectively apply Use Cases. This workshop will also provide guidance on how to avoid the common difficulties that teams experience when starting a project with Use Cases, such as capturing the right level of detail and the complexities involved with applying and managing use cases.

• Learn how to effectively capture, analyse and communicate functional and technical requirements
• Learn how to effectively manage and maintain traceability for changing requirements
• Become a better communicator by gaining a better understanding of how the requirements that you produce are used to design and develop systems
• Understand how to use the Requirements Model to make "Build versus Buy" decisions
• Become proficient in user-centric requirements analysis with use cases using industry standard UML
• Avoid common use case modeling and management pitfalls
• Learn how to apply use cases to develop test cases and documentation
• Understand how Requirements Modeling & Analysis fits into the overall development lifecycle
• Learn how to model essential user interfaces early in the development lifecycle
• Get templates that you can customize and use on your own projects

Who Should Attend
Business and system analysts, project managers, business experts, and anyone who needs to learn how to effectively capture, communicate and manage software requirements.

Instructional Methods
Lecture, illustrated with many examples, will present the information that you need to know in just-in-time fashion. Learning is further reinforced while you work on carefully selected real-world case studies and sequence of exercises, which incorporate the core concepts presented in the workshop. There is a 60% - 40% split between lecture and exercises. This is a Learning Optimization Program™ Workshop.
how the requirements that you produce are used to design and develop systems

Prerequisites
Prior analysis experience is helpful, but not required.

Workshop Content

• Requirements Management – concepts & principles
• Requirements and the project lifecycle
• Discover and define business goals and system features
• Establishing system scope
• Modeling Actors and Use Cases
• Writing effective Use Cases
• Advanced Use Case modeling
• Scenarios and test cases
• Organizing the Use Case model
• Modeling the domain with business objects
• Modeling business components and interfaces
• UML Activity Diagrams
• Use Case modeling patterns and anti-patterns
• Modeling the user interface
• Beyond the requirements model

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