What was the focus of the course work this week?

 The course material focused this week on Requirements management concepts and the application of Use Cases in information systems development. 

What were the topics? 

The topics in the third chapter introduced us to how business requirements come into being and how they form the basis for the system to be developed. We learned about the tasks undertaken during analysis of business requirements and forming them into system design. We also had topics on the techniques used by system analysts to elicit and capture requirements. The fourth chapter taught us on concepts of Use Case and its application in understanding requirements at a more functional level. In addition to that we also learned about the types of Use Cases. 

How does it relate to your work?  

I have used several information systems and worked on building many others. I observe how the requirements coming from the client to the business analyst are passed down in the form of design to the technical implementation team. These topics gave me a bigger picture of things like requirement analysis and how I can apply Use Cases to broaden my understanding of the system I am implementing. It gave me a new paradigm into improving quality through application of Use cases to develop thorough Test scenarios.