Objectives

• Understand and apply business use case modeling approach
  • Represent business services
  • Capture detailed business requirements
• Relate business services to business motivation
• How to identify business actors and business services
• How to model business interaction with use case diagrams
• How to organize the business service model
• How to incrementally refine business use cases
• How to define scope of enterprise with business use cases

Description

Business Service Fundamentals teaches how to capture detailed business requirements using the business use case technique. Beginning with a discussion of common challenges and best practices, the course continues with an overview of the business service modeling process and how business use cases evolve throughout the iterative lifecycle. Then the course describes the concepts of business actors and business use cases, how to identify and name them, and guidelines for avoiding functional decomposition. How to represent the interaction between business actors and business services using UML use case diagrams is discussed. Then strategies for organizing the business service model and producing the business service survey are described. The course also introduces how to apply UML activity diagrams for workflow modeling. The basic and alternate flows for a business use case are discussed when outlining use cases. The course finishes with an overview of how to complete a detailed business use case specification including business rules and special requirements.