Use Case Analysis & Modeling – Business Analysis Training
Use cases are a popular business analysis tool. They provide significant benefits to the customer, other stakeholders and the project team. Use cases provide a context to requirements that is vital for determining value, scope and needs. Use cases can be used to simplify and streamline development processes, but must be used properly for each given situation–our course tackles these tough questions and challenges.
Use Case Analysis & Modeling covers foundational use case skills and techniques allowing participants to learn in a hands-on, team-based environment. Our use case training course goes beyond basic use cases; the course addresses:
- Use cases in various methodologies (sequential and agile development)
- Use cases as an analysis tool
- Types of use cases
- Other requirements of use cases
- Use case modeling as a tool to engage customers in the analysis process
- Integration of real examples from your organization
Our instructors have over 15 years of experience as seasoned training professionals and practicing consultants. They are Certified Business Analysis Professionals (CBAP), Project Management Professionals (PMP) and Certified Scrum Professionals (CSP).
Key Topics
- Understand use cases and agile approaches
- Determine the correct use case approach for your situation
- Engage customers in analysis for better results
- Understand, write and repair use cases
- Use cases with wireframes and diagrams
Learning Approach
Learning about use cases involves working with them–writing them, analyzing them, fixing them and asking questions. Our use case training employs tangible examples and team-based exercises to increase learning and engagement. The course also includes team assessments of existing use cases students provide as part of the real world experience.
Duration
Use Case Analysis & Modeling is a 1 day training course. Our 1 day course involves significant hands-on use case modeling and analysis. We also offer a customer 2 day course, based on your organization’s specific needs. The 2 day course expands on the first day adding additional lessons, challenges, modeling and analysis of use cases specific to your organization and development approaches.
Course Credit
The course may be submitted for 8 CDU credits with IIBA or PDU credit with PMI.
Custom Training Options
If your organization is interested in our custom use case training course, please contact us to discuss the options. Our custom Use Case Analysis & Modeling training course is tailored to our customers: we integrate your real business examples into the course to create a hands-on workshop for your organization. We can also add additional business analysis training topics to the course, such as user story training and additional custom use case workshops.
Learning Objectives
- The value of the use case model and how to explain it
- How to utilize the use case model with customers for faster results by combining elicitation and analysis
- How use cases are valuable in traditional and agile development methods – Yes agile use cases!
- The way in which use cases can relate to user stories
- How the use case approach varies from traditional to agile development methods
- How to determine the use case detail level you need to succeed
- Actual use cases and types of use cases (white box, black box, business, system, etc.)
- How to start a new project within a use case framework
- Create use case diagrams for different audiences
- Identify and write use case main scenarios
- Identify use case extensions (alternate flows and exception flows) and write them
- How to discover other types of requirements from use cases
- Analyze use cases and identify problems
- How to repair existing use cases using a use case quality assessment
- How to review and assess use cases with wireframes and activity diagrams
- The way in which use cases and testing are integrated
- Review a use case software tool and discuss its pros and cons
Who Should Attend
- Anyone interested in leveraging an approach to requirements elicitation, analysis and testing that results in clearer requirements and increased value to customers.
- People working with requirements, use cases, business analysis, product management or project management.
- Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Product Owners, Product Managers, Project Managers, Product Champions, Architects, Developers, Quality Assurance Testers, Developers, Programmers and Development Managers.
Questions and Scheduling
Please call or email us with any questions about the course or to discuss scheduling Use Case Analysis & Modeling training.