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

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 Case and User Story Examples: Tip 1. Essentially, they list the actors and tell a short story about a usage scenario. Writing Effective Use Cases by: Alistair Cockburn. When written well, use cases can effectively convey subtle user-system interactions. I have just finished reading 'Writing Effective Use Cases' by Alistair Cockburn. These are what Cockburn (“Writing Effective Use Cases”) describes as “informal” use cases. A use case needs “stuff” behind it to describe it. To write effective use cases, be productive without perfection. It is a truly great book and I would strongly recommend anyone about to embark on a requirements project to read it. A use case diagram is a behavior diagram, so each use case needs its behavior described. On my way to visit our development team in India, I packed a couple of books on user requirement definition and UML modeling. I divide the energy of writing use cases into four stages of precision, according to the amount of energy required and the value of pausing after each stage: Actors & Goals. 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). Write Effective Use Case[stage note].