Business Analysis - BA Collective - Use Cases On YouTube.
www.bacollective.com http I'm Anna Klemp and this is the BA Collective Webcast. There is an adage that a "classic" novel is one that everyone admires, but that no one has actually read. Were one simply adventurous enough to approach the subject matter, one would relish the simplicity and joy the experience would bring. Use cases, to a Business Analyst, are perhaps the most "classical" of tools. Use cases, like classic novels, are held in the highest regard, but rarely understood or properly executed upon. So, what is a use case exactly? A use case is a detailed description of a user's interaction with a system. That's it. It's pretty simple; somewhat general, and rather vague. But that's the way it should be. A use case really amounts to nothing more than plain old "documentation." It can be applied to a business process, a complex software system, your morning routine, a wedding ceremony, or a historical event. The only requirements are an "actor" and an object to be acted upon. A brief word about the term "actors." You will hear the term with some frequency. It is a core term to the Rational Unified Process or RUP. There are a lot of terms specific to RUP and other established processes and methodologies that can sometimes cause people to avoid use cases. The intent of this video is to encourage analysts that might not have considered using use cases to go ahead and do so. Don't let words like RUP, SDLC, methodology, process, and use case throw you off. So if you hear ...
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