Writing Effective Scenarios and Use Cases

Programme

9:30	Registration and Refreshments
	Strategies for gathering requirements?
10.00	Presentation	Introduction – Scenarios, Use cases, Requirements. What are they, Why use them, how are they used?
10.15	Presentation	Experiences with Scenarios, Use Cases: Digital Rights Management and Learning Activity Design. What has worked and what hasn’t, Why.
	Creating a Scenario
10.45	Presentation	Scenarios – Guidelines on creating scenarios
11.00	Refreshments
11.15	Individual work	Create a scenario
11.30	Group discussion	Discussion – Scope of scenarios, how many is enough?
	Creating a Use Case
12.00	Presentation	How to create a use case. How do scenarios fit in use cases
12.20	Group work	Create Success scenarios
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Pair work	Develop a full Use Case including extensions
	Using a Use Case – gathering requirements
14.30	Presentation	A Worked Example
14.45	Pair work	Try analysing one you prepared earlier
15.15	Refreshments
	Review
15.30	Presentation	Anticipate problems, maintain flexibility, focus on outcomes
15.45	Group discussion	What next?
16.30	Close

Content by: Mahendra Mahey
Page last revised on: 19-Jun-2006
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