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Prioritizing Use Cases in an Iteration

As part of an IBM Rational training on Requirements Management which I regularly deliver at Info Support, is an exercise aimed at prioritizing a set of requirements. In that exercise, students are asked to prioritize a set of requirements giving a set...

Published 25-11-2008 23:55 by HarryN

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Requirements, Project Management

New blog moved to WordPress

I moved my new blog to http://hij2mc.wordpress.com/ . (hij2mc = how I jump to my conclusions, I continue the name of the blog) I used Blogger some time but changed to Wordpress as it offers better ways to organize your content. The RSS Feed for my blog...

Published 03-06-2006 9:47 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design, KUN - Ninja - Radboud

Moving on and making place ...

This night I set up a new weblog, How I jump to my conclusions with Blogger at Blogspot.com, since I'm switching from my current employer Infosupport to Getronics PinkRoccade. Unfortunately, Getronics apparently does not (yet?) have a company blogsite...

Published 05-05-2006 0:08 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design, KUN - Ninja - Radboud

Sixty-three Habits

Some variants on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People from Stephen R. Covey From Stephen R. Covey self: Seven Habits Revisited: Seven Unique Human Endowments If you run short of time: Seven Habits Condensed Summaries From Technicat: Seven Habits...

Published 09-02-2006 0:44 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Project Management, Analysis and Design, User interface design

The waterfall process is back!

Forget everything you learned the last 20 years and get back on track. Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development Including valuable tutorials from Martin, Cockburn, Beck, Kroll, Kern and many others. Read about the WUP! (Tip...

Published 02-02-2006 21:44 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, UML, Software Engineering, Other, Requirements, Business Modeling, Project Management, Analysis and Design, Testing, User interface design

Scott Sehlhorst started a Use Case series

Scott Sehlhorst started a Use Case series ( Tyner Blain » Use case series: Introduction ) and as we share some common interests, he asked me to comment on it. I started commenting today and looking forward to his reactions.

Published 04-01-2006 23:54 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Software Engineering, Requirements

Sample Use-Case specification

I wrote a sample Use-Case specification , which will be used as a sample on upcoming posts and articles on this blog. It relates to the formal Use-Case specification written by Scott W. Ambler in Introduction to System Use Cases . Please feel free to...

Published 04-01-2006 22:09 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Requirements

Another one on Estimating with Use Case Points

Mike Cohn wrote on Estimating With Use-Case Points for the Methods & Tools newsletter. A had a previous post on a free book on Use-Case Points .

Published 16-11-2005 23:53 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, Requirements, Project Management

Experience in Using Business Scenarios to Assess COTS components

Lymer, Liu and Easterbrook published Experience in Using Business Scenarios to Assess COTS Components in Integrated Solutions The use a Scenario Framework (BSF) which is a variation of the scenario-based approaches in requirements engineering, to address...

Published 01-11-2005 22:38 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Requirements, Business Modeling

How use cases can help us understand and manage project scope

In Use Cases Part II: Taming Scope , Norm Carr and Timothy Meehan demonstrate several advantages of using the use-case driven approach to establishing project scope and requirements over more ad hoc practices: The diagrammed model quickly communicates...

Published 26-10-2005 23:19 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, RUP, Requirements

Traceability Management through Use Cases

JOT: Journal of Object Technology - Traceability Management through Use Cases, N. Benocomo and A. Matteo This paper proposes and illustrates how to specify a clear traceability from the Use Case model through Analysis, Design, Deployment and Implementation...

Published 22-09-2005 23:32 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, UML, Requirements, Analysis and Design

Formalism, technique and rigour in Use Case Modelling

JOT: Journal of Object Technology - Formalism, technique and rigour in Use Case, Bruce Anderson Despite the ubiquity of use case modelling as a concept, there are very many ways to approach it as a practical activity. One key to success on a project is...

Published 22-09-2005 23:29 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, UML, Requirements

Personas at the heart of Business Success - at Dilbert's company

At Dilbert's company, using personas enabled the company to narrow down their target market …. Dilbert Comic Strip Archive - Dilbert.com!

Published 22-09-2005 23:07 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, Other, Requirements

What about arrowheads in use-case diagrams?

There always has been a lot of discussion respect to the presence or absence of arrowheads on communication-association relationships between actors and use cases in use-case diagrams. In my requirements management course, I always give the advice Dr...

Published 13-09-2005 20:55 by Anonymous

Filed under: Use Cases, Requirements

An introduction to user journeys

Jason Hobbs introduces you into the potential of user journeys . "Designing a website’s structure around customer needs creates trust—trust in the web as a valuable space to interact with a brand, product, or service. Such a website provides your customers...

Published 09-09-2005 0:44 by Anonymous