XPColumbus

Next Meeting: March 28, 2007

Topic Summary: Use Cases in an Iterative Lifecycle
Daryl will discuss his experiences with writing use cases in an iterative/incremental lifecycle. How can requirements be done iteratively? Iterative/incremental lifecycles are acknowledged as being more effective than waterfall, but should that include eliciting and documenting requirements, or should requirements be gathered before the iterative work begins? When are use cases appropriate and what other types of requirements are important? This will be a lively discussion, not a lecture, and by the end, you'll have more insight into the "art" of requirements and the iterative lifecycle.

Presentation
 
About the Speaker:
Daryl Kulak is a consultant with Perficient, Inc. He's been a designer, developer, tester, technical architect, project manager and requirements analyst on various client projects during the past twenty-five years. In the past ten years, he has spent most of his time as a methodology mentor, helping teams with use cases and iterative/incremental project lifecycles. He's the co-author of the book "Use Cases: Requirements in Context" (Addison Wesley, 2003) which has sold 25,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. Daryl is originally from Alberta, Canada, but now lives in Westerville, Ohio.

Meeting Info:

The meeting will be held on Wed. March 28th at OCLC in the Smith Private Dining Room from 11:30am to 1pm. Please mark this date on your calendars. You can bring your lunch or purchase lunch in the OCLC cafeteria. To register for this meeting, send email to Nilesh Prabhu

Directions to OCLC