REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT WITH USE CASES,V2002.05.00

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Description:

Requirements Management with Use Cases provides three days of training in requirements management and use-case modeling techniques. The course focuses on eliciting and managing the changing requirements of a project; analyzing the problem, defining the product vision and feature requirements, defining software requirements and requirement attributes, and maintaining traceability, change management, and impact analysis for project scope management. The course shows how use-case modeling and requirements management techniques are used to define and document requirements that meet stakeholder needs. Students practice applying use case techniques through exercises developing use cases.

Audience:

This course is intended for anyone involved with requirements capture, specification, use, or management, including System Analysts, Business Analysts, Project, Technical and QA Managers, Documentation Specialists, Software Analysts and Designers, QA Designers and Testers, and Sales and Marketing.

Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

• Apply effective requirements management skills to produce a clear statement of product requirements
• Capture and document requirements with use-case modeling techniques
• Set up a documentation hierarchy and standards for different levels of requirements
• Use attributes and traceability to help manage requirements scope and change throughout the product lifecycle
• Define requirements that drive ongoing design, test, and user documentation activities

Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Required Experience

Students should have an understanding of:

• Project management practices
• The software development lifecycle

Topics:

Requirements Management Process

- Introduction to Use-Case Modeling

- Analyze the Problem

• Finding the root causes
• Ambiguity

- Understand Stakeholder Needs

- Define the System: the vision, product features, and use case model

• Find Actors and Use Cases

- Manage System Scope

- Refine the System Definition

• Detail each Use Case
• Define Supplementary Specifications

- Manage Changing Requirements

• The Use Case Model using UML Relationships

- Requirements Across the Product Lifecycle

Note: This course teaches requirements management within the context of the Rational Unified Process (RUP). This course is not a RUP course. This course does not teach the use of Rational RequisitePro.

Rational Software Products

This methodology course lays the foundation for the following products:

• Rational RequisitePro