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Overview: 

This one-day workshop covers the process, methods, steps and questions to use when facilitating a structured Use-Case driven Requirements Workshop. This is a very practical approach that makes it quick and easy to discover, describe and document Use Cases directly with your stakeholders. More than 50% of this workshop is devoted to hands-on group work, individual presentation and feedback assessments using a common case exercise.

Name  "Conducting A Requirements Use Case Workshop" (CRUCW) 
Duration  One (1) day
Type  Instructor-led 
Target  Business Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Project Leads 
Rating  4 stars 
Purpose  To learn and apply practical techniques for eliciting use cases
Pre-req none

 

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Course Content:  

  • Use Case Level Setting
    What is Effective Facilitation?
    What is a Use Case?
    The Requirements Use Case Workshop and Where it Fits
    Process Modeling, Use Cases, Scenarios and Requirements
    Forms of Use Cases
    The Case Study
  • The Five Steps to Conducting a Requirements Use Case Workshop
    1. Confirm Roles and Responisbilities
    2. Review Objectives
    3. Establish Scope
    4. Create a Work list (of the Business Activities and Variations to define)
    5. Describe the Business Activities using Use Case Modeling
  •  Use Case Modeling
    1. Identify the Actor(s)
    2. Define the Pre-condition
    3. Define the Post-condition
    4. Describe the Simple (Main Flow) Scenario
    5. Describe the Detailed (Main Flow) Scenarios
    6. Describe the Detailed Variations (Alternate Scenarios)
  • Next Steps
    Describe the Functional Business Requirements
    DEscribe the Information (Data) Requirements 

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn how to effectively facilitate use case discussions to elicit the essential and sufficient level of requirements for your project.
    • Answer the questions:
  • "Do I use Use Cases to 'discover' requirements", or to describe requirements already discovered?
  • "How can I help my users tell me what I need to know?"
  • "How many use cases do I need?"
  • "How detailed do the use cases need to be?"