Template Use Cases
Here is my remembering the future entry.
The set of Template Use Cases for Insurance was the best thing I ever found for my job. For this new insurance project, all I had to do was copy all of the Microsoft Word documents into a new directory, remove the use cases I didn’t need, add a few new ones for some special things we do, then edit everything to add the specifics for my company. The interview questions for stakeholders were just what I needed to get the information to refine the use cases.
My boss is really happy too because my use cases are so much better than they used to be, and completed faster as well. The templates also came with template use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and class diagrams in XML format so I could import them into the UML tool we are using here. Then I could just edit them to match the changes I made to the use cases. Not only is the project going really well for me, my relationship with my boss and the project team is better, and I am getting a company “Best Idea of the Quarter” award, with a nice bonus for Christmas.
Cool! Make it so Number One!
Jason
Hey, Jason. If you ever find those, let me know!
I’ve thought about this as well. I also work in insurance (health), and the basics of what we do is pretty straightforward and not all that different from what all the others do. The differences are mainly in the details of the procedures and the rules (constraints and definitions) that affect our work. Of course, the “How” is probably very different than other insurance companies (heck, it’s often different from person to person in our own company), but the “how” is not a business requirement, but merely a function of our solution implementation design.
All I need is for my company to give me a couple of years off of projects to go through and create the inventory, then set up my company and sell it to one and all. Yeah, and first pigs will fly.
Andrew