Developing Requirements for IT Systems with Use Cases
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Improve customer satisfaction and product delivery by applying techniques from this use case based IT requirements development course. With this use case training, you will understand the difference between user requirements vs system requirements, and gain the skills to capture software and IT business needs and requirements. You will also write use cases to specify software requirements, draw UML diagrams to model the system, create the data and interface models, and develop an IT requirements document.
You Will Learn How To
- Develop requirements for IT and software-intensive systems
- Build a use case based requirements model
- Write use cases
- Model user interfaces using mock-ups and a data model
Course Outline
- The Importance of Software Requirements
The software development life cycle
- Defining and differentiating between requirement types
- Locating requirement sources
- Development approaches
Presenting software requirements
- Structuring the requirements document
- Requirements components: text, diagrams, data
- Structuring Your Project
Tuning your methodology to your project size
- Matching the process to size and complexity of projects
- Differentiating Agile from standard techniques
Analyzing stakeholder input
- Identifying and prioritizing stakeholders
- Eliciting initial requirements input
- Iterating requirements collaboratively
Applying the requirements process
- Elicitation
- Analysis
- Specification
- Validation
- Capturing and Refining Use Cases
Writing user stories
- Scripting user stories and use cases
- Iteration and progressive elaboration of use cases
Creating structured use cases
- Use cases as behavioral requirements
- Identifying stakeholders and actors Naming and scoping use cases
- Writing scenarios: main and alternatives
- Adding preconditions and guarantees
Iterating use cases
- Refining use cases with stakeholders
- Factoring common steps
- Discovering extension scenarios
- Verifying use case completeness
Organizing use cases
- Diagramming scenarios with UML
- Choosing free text vs. formal use case notation
- Generating Interface Requirements
Integrating interface requirements
- Supporting use cases with user interface mock-ups
- Comparing types of interface
Producing interface models
- Storyboarding and prototyping
- Modeling interfaces with UML state diagrams and navigation maps
- Data Requirements
Analyzing data requirements
- Exploring the use cases and the interface
- Determining data business rules
Creating a requirements data model
- Representing data models with UML class diagrams
- Entities
- Attributes
- Associations
- Adding associations' multiplicity
- Maintaining the glossary
- Nonfunctional Requirements
Gathering nonfunctional requirements
- Obtaining volumetrics
- Classifying nonfunctional requirements using FURPS
Documenting nonfunctional requirements
- System reliability: Availability, Accuracy and Failures
- Addressing the "-ilities"
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Standard
Government
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Online
Standard
$2650
Government
$2355
Private Team Training
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Training Hours
Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
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