I am happy to report that www.rationalrose.com appears to be alive and well with several selections of the VOPC script available. I wouldn't model without it, myself.
Eric, I will send you a presentation I delivered at the Rational Users Conference 2 years ago on Risk Management. Hope it helps. cve -----Original Message----- From: Dunnavant, Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:51 AM To: ROSE_FORUM Subject: RE: (ROSE) From Use Case to Use Case Realiztion Eric, None online. I'm trying to find a RoseScript that can create a VOPC easily from a UCR with an arbitrary number of object interaction diagrams. This script used to be at www.rationalrose.com, but that Web site appears to be inactive. Pity. It was a great one. Does anyone else know where the vopc2 and vopc3 scripts can be had? I don't know how to convince anyone to use a particular approach to project management :-) We strongly advocate a risk-driven approach to PM, whereby you prioritize the major risks to be addressed first. The art comes into identifying which functions of the system will exercise the pieces of the system that are associated with that risk. Sometimes that is easy to figure out. For example, if your major risk is something like, "We have never used CMP Entity EJBs before", most any use case that involves manipulating persistent data in a J2EE system can be used to exercise code associated with that risk. A tougher example would involve a performance-related risk. Performance is almost always associated with architectural issues, but you might actually have to implement multiple use cases at the same time in order to create a system that was full-featured enough to investigate the system's performance characteristics. ******************************************************** R a t i o n a l the software development company(tm) Todd Dunnavant Technical Lead, IBM Global Account Team Office Phone #: (281) 431-8751 Fax Phone #: (281) 431-8791 E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] < mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rational's Mission: "To ensure the success of Customers who depend on software development and deployment." ******************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Eric D. Tarkington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:33 AM To: Dunnavant, Todd; ROSE_FORUM Subject: Re: (ROSE) From Use Case to Use Case Realiztion Todd, I like your description of the VOPC, and I have to teach this stuff, so please riddle me this: Does Rational have any good examples of VOPCs that I can look at online? I also like your description of the relationship between risk and the realization process. Any tips on how to convince Dilbert's boss to actually use this in the long run? (Please don't suggest anything involving a blow torch and duct tape.) -Eric "Dunnavant, Todd" wrote: > - A (single!) class diagram, what we call the View of Participating Classes > (VOPC) diagram, that shows the relationships between ALL the classes that > are involved in ANY of the scenarios. Well, this might actually be taking > the concept too far. If I am using subsystem-based development, I most > likely would stop at the subsystem boundaries. That is, the UCR interaction > diagrams wouldn't go deeper than the subsystem interfaces, and the VOPC > wouldn't show the classes that implement the interface operations. > > The VOPC is a very powerful diagram. In our approach to iterative systems > development, we commonly determine the functionality to be implemented > during an iteration by: > - Identifying the risks we wish to retire during that iteration, then > - Identifying the use cases that will make us face those risks when we > implement them. > > Let's say that a risk is architectural in nature. We select a use case that > WE THINK will force us to design and implement that piece of the > architecture. During system design, we can use the VOPC to confirm that we > are, indeed, touching the pieces of the system's innards that we expected, > or we can see that we AREN'T. If we catch this faux pas early enough, we > might still have time to touch our risky piece of the system by revisiting > the project plan and implementing a different use case. ************************************************************************ * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support * * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Archive of messages: * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: <BLANK> * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************ * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support * * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Archive of messages: * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: <BLANK> * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum *************************************************************************
