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

Mastering use case development is perhaps the best move I ever made on becoming a better architect. Writing use cases as a means of capturing the behavioral requirements of software systems and business processes is a practice that is quickly gaining popularity. In Writing Effective Use Cases, Alistair Cockburn illustrates a "hub-and-spoke" model of requirements. Cockburn, Alistair, Writing Effective Use Cases, Addison-Wesley, 2001. A Use Case Driven Approach, revised printing, Addison-Wesley 1993. I reviewed this book as I believe there is little out there in the way of training or guidance on how to do use case modeling well. The secret: Writing Effective Use Cases (snippet) by Alistair Cockburn. Essentially, they list the actors and tell a short story about a usage scenario. Without having the proper understanding of use cases and the purpose of writing one, writing an effective case to elicit functional requirements can be pretty…useless. These are what Cockburn (“Writing Effective Use Cases”) describes as “informal” use cases. Cockburn is the Use Case Jedi Master. Were these folks hoodwinked by use case zealots with an agile bent?