The Application of Use Cases to Requirements Management

                            A One Day Introductory Tutorial

                                Saturday, June 17th, 2000

        Instructors: Michael Jesse Chonoles, Janet Z. Conway, Lester L. Zern
 
 
 

Are you interested in:

1. Requirement Gathering, Definition, and Gathering Techniques;
2. Learning about Use Cases and how to apply them to requirement gathering
3. Use Cases and scenarios
4. Documenting requirements: Converting Use Cases to traditional requirements
5. Advanced Use Cases , Unified Modeling Language(UML), Interfaces, Subsystem Modeling

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Use Cases have become a technique for gathering requirements that more and more companies are interested in using. The Use Case technique focuses on the user of the system in an attempt to get the business perspective for requirements. This user centered approach improves the overall involvement of the stakeholders as well as keeps our focus on the business drivers for a system. The purpose of this tutorial is to provide an introduction to use cases and gathering and documenting requirements using this technique. It will also provide an overview of UML as it relates to use cases. This tutorial will include some hands-on exercises for participants.

• Introduction to Requirements
• An Overview of various Requirement Gathering Techniques
• Overview of Use Cases;
• What is a Use Case?
• Use Case Packages
• Use Cases and Scenarios
• Converting Use Cases to requirements
• Textual approach
• Scenario approach
• Advanced Requirements with UML
• Includes relationships
• Extends relationships
• Generalization
• Object Constraint Language
• Scenario Diagramming for Timing Requirements
• Interfaces
• Subsystem Modeling

About the Instructors

Michael Jesse Chonoles is the Software Development Practice Area Lead and Chief of Methodology for Lockheed Martin Advanced Concepts Center (ACC). An established OO author, columnist, and educator, Michael is responsible for the technological and methodological direction of the ACC’s technology transfer and training practice and works with selected clients to surmount barriers to technology adoption and mission success. With over 20 years in the system/software development industry, Michael has been a significant influence on the direction of UML - as the ACC’s representative to OMG - and as a direct and indirect influence by speaking, writing, lobbying, training, and inspiring. Michael is currently responsible for Use Cases within the UML Revision Task Force. Michael has an M.S.E. in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and S.B.s in Math and Physics from MIT. He can be contacted at Michael.J.Chonoles@lmco.com.

Janet Z. Conway is a senior consultant with 24 years experience in the information systems field. Twelve of those years have been focused on object oriented technologies. She has participated in various roles over the entire software development life cycle; planning, analyzing, designing, implementing, testing, and managing both large and small projects. She has written, published, and presented papers at the Intelligence Conference, the Modeling and Simulation Symposium, the 1994 OBJEX Conference, and participated as part of a panel discussion at the 1994 Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) Conference. She also published an article for the SIGS Publications.

Lester L. Zern is a Senior Consultant with Lockheed Martin's Advanced Concepts Center. He is currently the Project and Requirements Management Practice Area Lead within the Advanced Concepts Center (ACC). He has been predominantly involved in consulting and project management of object-oriented projects. He is also a senior instructor with the ACC focusing on project and requirements management of object oriented systems, the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and use cases. Les has a Master of Computing Science degree from Lehigh University.

How to Enroll: Fill out and mail via US mail the enrollment form provided. Acceptable forms of payment will be personal checks, bank drafts, and money orders. Sorry, credit cards and purchase orders are not accepted. Enrollment must be accompanied by the full fee. Fees are payable to "INCOSE Delaware Valley Chapter". If paying by company check and you would like to "reserve" a place in the tutorial, remit a personal check and attach a note to hold for company payment.

Confirming Enrollment: If you do not receive an enrollment confirmation 5 days prior to the scheduled date of the tutorial, please call one of the individuals listed below.

Cancellation Policy: Full refunds will be made prior to June 3rd. No refunds will be made after June 3rd; substitutions are permitted. INCOSE Delaware Valley Chapter reserves the right to cancel the tutorial with full refunds.

Enrollment Notice: A confirmation notice, including directions and a map to the Naval Air Systems Command, Lakehurst and the classroom will be provided as well as parking information and a phone number to be used in an emergency. Course material will be distributed on the day of the tutorial at the registration desk. Registration begins at 8:00 AM. The course is scheduled to end at 3:00 PM.

Lunch is Provided: A one hour lunch break is scheduled. Lunch will be provided.

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