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Writing Effective Use Cases Alistair Cockburn
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

When written well, use cases can effectively convey subtle user-system interactions. Writing Effective Use Cases (Alistair Cockburn) Link. If I wanted to recommend “the” book for use cases, it was “Writing Effective Use Cases” by Alistair Cockburn. Alistair Cockburn's in his pivotal book “Writing Effective Use Cases” describes five levels of use cases (a use case isn't exactly a user story, but this concept is a great parallel for writing user stories at an appropriate level). Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn is a book that will teach you the correct way to write and utilize Use Cases, and by doing so save your projects (thus potentially saving YOU). Writing Effective Requirement Documents – An Overview Although there are many ways to translate project requirements, Use cases, User Stories and Scenarios are the most frequently used methods to capture them. I was looking for “the” book on user stories. Use cases can help answer these questions by providing a simple, fast means to decide and describe the purpose of your project. I just read a recent blog (wiki) entry by Alistair Cockburn (of "writing effective use cases" fame) called "why I still use use cases". Whenever I have questions about use cases myself, I grab my use case bible which is Writing Effective Use Cases from Alistair Cockburn. I received this book on Tuesday and had finished reading it by Thursday. Below is a use case based on his “Casual Use Case” structure. Alistair Cockburn, an expert on use cases describes in “Writing Effective Use Cases” (2001) that a “fully dressed” use case is not always appropriate. I'm still surprised how few people know how to write good user stories, it's quite simple, but it needs practise and this books is a great guide. In this quick-reading One of the biggest problems in delivering a website, and yet probably the least talked and written about, is how to decide, specify, and communicate just what, exactly, is it that we're going to build, and why. A use case diagram is a behavior diagram, so each use case needs its behavior described. A use case needs “stuff” behind it to describe it.