How to Capture Functional Requirements with Use Cases and Diagrams

The use case is the ultimate answer to the question, "How will someone use the solution I am developing once it is complete?" The answers to this question can become quite complex and require a considerable amount of structuring to make sense to both the business user and the developers who will ultimately deliver the technology solution. This class teaches techniques for gathering the information and structuring it into use case templates that transition easily into the real world of business analysis.

Outline

Identifying Business Use Cases
Inside the Use Case
Use Case Example: Process Payment
Paths in a Use Case
Numbering Schemata {Best Practices}
Depicting conditions id a use case
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
Use Case Diagram Conventions
Drawing a Use Case Diagram
Advanced Use Case Diagrams

Present the transition from business events to use cases
Document proposed user interaction in use cases and use case diagrams
Differentiate between business and system use cases
Depict conditional logic in the use case paradigm
Develop standard, alternate, and exception paths for a use case
Sequence the steps in the use case using a standard numbering scheme

Our vision of a virtual workshop is web-based training that is highly interactive. We absolutely avoid the death by page-turning and the passive learning approach that is highly prevalent in most web-based training.

3.5 hours