Course Overview
One of the hardest things to do when creating sophisticated software systems is to build the right thing. Too often requirements are gathered and systems are developed only to find that there is a poor fit between what the users actually need to do.

This two-day seminar specifically focuses on how to write requirements that effectively describe what customers and users really want. This is a high energy, intensely hands-on course that introduces both the theory and practice of using Use Cases to define the functional requirements for software systems. Throughout, participants will work together to identify, model, and document the Use Cases for a fun and entertaining example system, learning all the skills required for constructing highly effective Use Case Models and Specifications. Read More.

Who Should Attend
This course is ideally suited to software professionals involved in the development of software and user requirements, such as software analysts, software developers, programmers, system architects, software testers and software development managers. Software project managers, team leaders and business analysts will also benefit.

Benefits and Learning Objectives
Participants will learn how to be more efficient in their work by effectively describing what customers and users really want. Your deliverables will be easy to read and easy to manage. Learning areas include:

• Introducing Use Cases: More than stick figures and ovals
• Finding system actors and their goals
• Clarifying the problem and identifying stakeholder needs
• Writing Use Case briefs
• Identifying exceptions and alternative courses
• Use Case structures
• Improving Use Case quality
• Common pitfalls to avoid
• Read the Full Course Outline.

Plus, receive valuable takeaways. The workshop manual supplies full step-by-step instructions for creating good Use Cases along with valuable concept explanations and techniques used within the course.

Some comments from past participants:

“Review of use case development…will use on job immediately.”
“There is GOOD value in going through the exercises and playing the simulation.”
"The course material is drawn from many sources, which reduces time & cost of learning compared to trying to self-teach"

Read the Instructor Bio: Geoff Hewson.

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• Practical Estimation:
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• Successfully Managing Agile Projects
• Foundations for Success in Software Development
• Quality: The Foundation for Great Software
• Building a Great Product: The Qualities of Great Software
• 8 Essential Steps for Managing Software Projects

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August 30-31          Vancouver, BC         $1095 CAD   Register
November 24-25    Vancouver, BC         $1095 CAD   Register

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