The CHOOSE executive board is glad to invite you to the next talk given by Dr. Richard Mitchell (InferData, Austin, TX, USA): "Why not use cases?" on Thursday, September 11. 2003. This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members, even the drinks after the talk! Non-CHOOSE members are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/si-appl.html) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE. NOTE: registration for this event is required. See registration form at the end of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why not use cases? ================== September 11. 2003 Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universität Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hörsaal 001 Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/ Speaker ------- Dr Richard Mitchell, InferData, Austin, TX, USA Agenda ------ 17:00 - 18:15h Talk and Q/A Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment. Abstract -------- Use cases are central to most software development processes based on the modelling language UML. Use cases help specifiers organise system requirements around different kinds of users. Use cases do not capture business rules. In some development processes, this is a serious weakness. This talk will take a use case and from it develop a model that does capture business rules. The talk will briefly discuss what kinds of development processes can benefit from modelling, and some of the consequences of persisting with approaches based on use cases. Bio --- Richard Mitchell is a senior consultant for InferData Ltd of Austin, Texas, a small consulting and training company specializing in model-driven development of enterprise applications. Richard has helped many companies build precise models of parts of their businesses, and has trained many business analysts in modelling skills. Richard is the lead author of "Design by Contract, by Example," which describes the application to programming of the modelling principles used in his talk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ------------ Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail! Fill in the form below and sent it to <mailto:choose@glue.ch>. Thanks. I want to register to the following event: 11.9. Use cases Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ZIP/City:______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member [ ] JUGS member [ ] SI member [ ] Non-Member choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE/