Use Cases Made Simple: The Essential Toolkit for Beginners

Transform business needs into Use Case Models and Diagrams - your guide to mastering functional requirements

Created by: Tom and Angela Hathaway
Integrating AI for Business Analysis and UX Mastery

What Will I Learn?

• Distinguish between use case models and diagrams to accelerate requirements gathering and analysis ensuring clarity in software requirements documentation.
• Leverage use cases to improve collaboration and ensure stakeholder alignment between business, IT, and development teams.
• Identify and define various types of actors in use case modeling, including human users, external systems, and time-based events.
• Discover opportunities to use lean use cases to define MVPs, break down epics, and guide acceptance testing
• Utilize ChatGPT to generate initial drafts of use case briefs, significantly reducing documentation time while maintaining analytical depth.
• Use Business Event Response Analysis to discover lean Use Cases based on business activities
• Develop the skill to write detailed use case descriptions that bridge business needs and functional requirements.
• Craft use cases with standard, alternate, and exception paths, uncovering hidden requirements and edge cases to create comprehensive user journey maps.
• Incorporate the essential elements of effective use cases, including triggers, actors, pre- and post-conditions, and interaction paths (aka “flows of events”
• Use 'Include' and 'Extend' relationships to create reusable components, reduce redundancy, and incorporate late-stage requirements smoothly.

Requirements

• No technical background required
• The course has no prerequisites
• No additional materials are required
• Interest in the field of Business Analysis or Requirements Engineering for IT Solutions

Target audience

• Anyone who wants to communicate business needs and wants for a future IT solution, including (but not limited to):
• Product Owners
• Business Analysts
• Requirements Engineers
• Business- and Customer-side Team Members
• Domain Experts (aka Subject Matter Experts - SME)
• Project Leaders and Managers