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EFFICIENT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT WITH THE UNIFIED MODELLING LANGUAGE (UML)

3 Day Workshop

Speaker:

Dr. Peter Hruschka, Atlantic Systems Guild

In this workshop you will learn to develop object-oriented analysis and design models to portray your business. The models are based on the standardised Unified Modelling Language (UML V1.3). Using a lot of heuristics (i.e. hints and tricks of experts), you will learn to ask the right questions to the right persons, to transform the answers into object oriented models, thus laying the foundation for successful system development.

Every day you will practice your new modelling skills using many examples and a sizeable case study. You will see the models growing as we go along, as they should grow in your own projects. You will experience the learning curve immediately.

This workshop does not concentrate on the syntax of UML. Instead, it concentrates on the vital issue of how to use this standard to succeed in your projects. Delegates will learn the features in the UML that they should concentrate on and WHY! The workshop will focus on the reasoning behind the use of the diagrams, understand when they help and when they just put additional burden on the project.

This workshop is directed towards business and systems analysts, designers and project managers that are responsible for running object oriented projects. Persons from quality assurance and central methods - and standards departments will get a lot of helpful suggestions for their work.

Understand your customer’s requirements and document them in standardised form
Model the behaviour of a planned product or system
Model the real-world things in your problem space
Find and document solutions for given requirements
Find out which UML-models are most useful for your applications
Define the most useful subset of the UML that solves your problems
Understand when NOT to use UML

Object Oriented Development: An Overview
Basics of the UML

Business Process Modelling/System Analysis
- Finding Business Processes/Identifying Use Cases
- Setting the Context
- Specifying Use Cases

Detailed Systems Analysis
- Finding and Defining Classes, Drawing Class Models
- The different kinds of relationships: how to find and specify them

Scenarios to understand global system behaviour
- Textual Scenarios
- Hints for constructing sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams
- More kinds of classes: control classes and business views
- Activity diagrams to add precision to use cases

State Models for a better understanding of class behaviour
- Simple State Models
- Complete State Charts including nesting and concurrency
- Hints for constructing dynamic models

Object oriented design
- Goals and basic principles
- Packages, components, interfaces and deployment diagrams
- How to construct stable, yet flexible Designs
- The role of Software Architectures
- Architectural Patterns
- Design Patterns and how to use them

Management aspects of large OO-projects
- Iterative, evolutionary life cycles
- Stepwise planing and controlling of projects
Hints for introducing OO-methods in companies

Peter Hruschka

Peter Hruschka is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, an international think tank of methodologies, authors, trainers and consultants. He is a specialist in technology transfer for software and system engineering. His work ranges from surveys to determine the capabilities of organisations, constructing strategic plans, seminars and workshops for both structured and object-oriented methods, to coaching, consulting and project reviews. Currently he supports some large projects in banks, insurance companies and government agencies as well as in the embedded real-time industry.

Dr. Hruschka received his masters and PhD in computer science from the Technical University of Vienna. He started his career at GEI, a leading German System and Software House in 1976. His first project dealt with the standardisation of the German Real-Time Language PEARL. From 1979 to 1982 he was head of the training department, developing and teaching seminars on modern programming languages, as well as analysis and design methods. From these seminars came the idea to automate some of the methods. This was the starting point of CASE technology, though it happened before the term "CASE" came into general use. Dr. Hruschka is internationally recognised as on of the "fathers of CASE". Based on his paper "A project model and tools to support it", the successful environment PROMOD was published in 1981.

His work is concerned with better quality and higher productivity. To this end Dr. Hruschka has published several books and many articles on CASE and development methodologies. As a member of the editorial board of ObjektSpectrum, Germany’s leading OO-magazine, he regularly publishes papers on OO-analysis, design and management.