Workshops for Systems Designer and Architects

Ideal for systems architects and software engineers  who already have UML experience and now wish to  gain confidence in using Enterprise Architect. Includes  substantial hands-on sessions to produce  comprehensive UML models within the Enterprise  Architect environment. 

Introduction

·         delegate background and objectives

·         timetable and practical considerations

Navigation

·         what is Enterprise Architect?

·         model management

·         user interface

·         menus and toolbars

·         UML diagrams

·         UML toolbox

·         project browser

·         properties and notes windows

·         creating model elements

·         deleting model elements

·         model structure and views

·         navigation

Use Case Diagrams

·         creating use case diagrams

·         creating and documenting actors 

·         defining use cases

·         documenting scenarios

·         adding use case relationships

·         organising the use case model

·         use case diagrams

Generating Documents

·         producing RTF documents

·         customising RTF documents

·         producing HTML documents

·         customising HTML documents

·         generating documents

Activity Diagrams

·         creating activity diagrams

·         adding actions and transitions

·         modelling decisions and parallel actions

·         adding send, accept and time signals

·         using swim lanes or partitions

·         activity diagrams

Class Diagrams

·         creating class diagrams

·         creating classes

·         specifying class details

·         defining attributes

·         defining operations and parameters

·         adding associations

·         defining multiplicity and navigability

·         modelling aggregation and composition

·         creating inheritance hierarchies

·         modelling abstract classes and operations

·         adding management information

·         using tagged values

·         organising the class model

·         class diagrams

 

Code Generation

·         code generation

·         reverse engineering 

·         model synchronization

·         code generation

 

System Architecture

·         modelling package dependencies

·         creating subsystems

·         defining interfaces

·         creating components

·         adding assemblies

·         creating a deployment diagram

·         adding components to nodes

 

Sequence Diagrams 

·         creating sequence diagrams

·         adding objects

·         object messages

·         using fragments for logic

·         creating stereotypes

·         defining a use case realization

·         diagram navigation with hyperlinks

·          sequence diagrams 

Communication Diagrams 

·         creating communication diagrams

·         adding objects

·         object messages

·         message sequence numbering

·         showing conditions and iteration

·         communication diagrams

 

State Machine Diagrams 

·         creating state machine diagrams

·         adding states and transitions

·         defining events, conditions and actions

·         adding entry, exit and do actions to states

·         showing nested states and history 

·          state machine diagrams

 

Design Patterns

·         document a design pattern using a UML model 

·         export a design pattern

·         import a design pattern

·         apply a design pattern

·         design patterns

 

Relational Databases

·         creating database tables

·         adding columns

·         creating primary and foreign keys

·         creating indexes and triggers

·         relational databases

 

Team Working

·         packages and responsibility

·         using a shared network drive

·         creating replica projects

·         connecting to a DBMS repository

·         exporting files using XMI

·         defining controlled packages

·         baselines and differences