SPA Cambridge’s next meeting will be held on January 17th from 19:00. “Use Cases - for and against” will be led by Richard Mitchell of Inferdata.

Synopsis

Ask many people how they capture requirements for IT systems (particularly business information systems) and they will reply “with use cases”.

The case for use cases is that they work, and they can be shared between business and IT people.

The case against use cases is that they work only when everyone already knows the rules (or has an alternative path for discovering them). If you concentrate on capturing the rules, you can get to use cases as a design step.

In this talk, Richard will work through an example of capturing rules. From these rules, we’ll be able to derive a use case as a design for the user interaction.

Visit the Use Cases - for and against page for more information and to preregister.