Analysis Through Pictures

This book describes a requirements lifecycle based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) framework, from business modeling through to analysis and design. It contains a subset of RUP and UML, such that when combined together prove an effective method for software development in almost any situation. It makes use of the most useful software development practices and the most common UML notations.

The purpose of this book is to describe an implementable use case based approach for developing the requirements for a project. It is not going to describe requirements artifacts and then not explain their purpose or where they fit into the project lifecycle. Every artifact that is described is the result of a step in the process that produces something for a specific stakeholder.

This book is written for requirements analysts and systems or business/systems analysts who are looking for a specific set of requirements development processes that will work for them in order to deliver an appropriate analysis model. In particular, any process engineer who would be interested in a customized process that follows the best practices of the RUP.

The material starts with some practices for working with MS Office in a requirements environment. It then goes on to give an overview of the ideas behind the work; talks about use cases; describes a process for developing use case models; project glossaries; the lifecycle of a use case; use case storyboards; a process for object–oriented analysis and modeling the world in states.

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