How to Discover and Develop Use Cases

1. Use Cases and Business Systems

• Use Case Concepts
• Analysis of Business Systems Analysis
• Changing How the Business Works
• Definition of a Use Case
• Purpose of a Use Case
• Details of a Use Case
• Use of a Use Case
• Focus of Use Cases

2. Discovering Use Cases

• Potential Sources for Use Cases
• Nothing Happens Until Something Happens
• Our Area of Interest
• Business Events Defined
• Business Event Naming Convention
• Defining Business Events
• Finding Business Events
• Identifying Project Scope
• Confirming Project Scope
• Determining Event Responses
• Event Response Naming Convention
• Documenting Business Events
• Event/Response Table (v 1.0)
• Understanding Triggers
• Non-Triggered Events
• Scheduled Events
• Adding Event Triggers
• Event/Response Table (v 1.1)
• Additional Event/Response Information
• Event/Response Table (v 1.2)
• Visual Tools
• Event/Response Symbols and Conventions
• Event/Response Example Diagram
• Creating Event/Response Models
• Requirements Categories Addressed

3. Defining Business Use Cases

• Definition of a Use Case
• Introducing the Actor
• Naming Actors
• Use Case Diagram Symbols and Rules
• Naming Use Cases
• Use Case Diagram Conventions
• Drawing a Use Case Diagram
• Advanced Use Case Diagrams
• Of Business Events and Use Cases
• From Business Events to Use Cases
• Identifying Business Use Cases
• Inside the Use Case
• Use Case Example: Process Payment
• First Cut Use Case
• Paths in a Use Case
• Numbering Schemata {Best Practices}
• Second Cut Use Case
• User Scenarios:
• A Bottom-Up Approach to Use Cases
• The Advantage of Scenarios
• Use Case Scenario Structure:
• Donald Pays For Insurance
• Extracting Use Cases from Scenarios
• Basic Use Case Documentation
• Requirements Categories Addressed

4. Use Case Modeling Techniques

• Communications Channels
• Activity Diagramming Conventions
• Example of an Activity Diagram
• Creating an Activity Diagram
• Concurrency and More
• Modeling Concurrent Activities
• Introducing Swimlanes
• Activity Diagram with Swimlanes
• Modeling Swimlanes
• From Data Flow to Object Flow
• Introducing Object Flow
• Modeling Object Flow
• When to Use Activity Diagrams
• What’s Wrong with This Diagram?
• Requirements Categories Addressed

5. Appendices

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