Re: Best getting started books on Use Cases?

Hi Carl,

I find Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood's 'Software for Use' 
[Addison Wesley] is a great resource for getting into use case driven 
design. It covers more than use cases, but you may find the rest of the 
book very interesting too. They promote a methodology they've dubbed 
'Usage Centered Design' which differs slightly from User Centered 
Design in that the emphasis is on usage behaviors rather than user 
profiles. Its also a defined process rather than what you may call and 
'approach'. Personally, I try and take the best of these two UE design 
ideas by using Personas as a starting point to define Roles which are 
finally assigned Tasks. From Tasks you make Use Cases.

Personas are particularly good for the Understand/Discovery, Conceptual 
Development and then the Branding and Visual design work, but I find 
the nuts and bolts approach of Roles has more power for defining 
functionality. Roles tie in directly to Use Cases - which is all really 
well explained by Larry Constantine here 
http://www.foruse.com/articles/structurestyle2.pdf and in his book 
mentioned above.

Hope this helps.

Anthony Colfelt



On Jan 6, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Myhill, Carl S (GE Energy) wrote:

Hi William and all,

I'm a bit of a devotee to Cooper's personas but would like to get into 
Use
Case stuff too - what are the best starting out books?

Thanks

Carl

PS Happy new year

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