{"id":19323,"date":"2020-08-19T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insurance-canada.ca\/?p=67586"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:39:21","slug":"developing-use-cases-key-to-effective-business-it-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/08\/19\/developing-use-cases-key-to-effective-business-it-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Use Cases Key to Effective Business\/IT Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>New Novarica brief describes the challenges and best practices for utilizing use cases to understand business and IT goals throughout the project lifecycle<\/h3>\n<p>Boston, MA (Aug. 11, 2020) \u2013 A common understanding across the user community, business, and IT can produce a more effective end product and enhance relationships. In a new executive brief, <em><strong>Developing and Utilizing Use Cases: Key Issues and Best Practices<\/strong><\/em>, research and advisory firm Novarica describes the value, challenges, and best practices for utilizing use cases to understand the goals and development of requirements throughout the project lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsurers should adopt processes and documentation methods that work for them to help their projects succeed,\u201d said Nancy Casbarro, Vice President of Research and Consulting and author of Novarica\u2019s new report. \u201cImplementing consistent approaches to use cases that mature into complete requirements can help insurers facilitate business process understanding, document system specifics, and deliver on user needs\u2014making projects run more smoothly and improving outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/novarica.com\/developing-and-utilizing-use-cases-key-issues-and-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> for the table of contents or to access the report.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Report Summary<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This brief describes the value, challenges, and best practices for utilizing use cases to understand the goals and development of requirements throughout the project lifecycle. A common understanding across the user community, business, and IT can produce a more effective end product and enhance relationships. Use cases can help insurers develop common business understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Use cases provide a sound basis for establishing scope and understanding system goals; they can evolve throughout the project to support analysis, planning, design, testing, and implementation. High-quality use cases can mature through the phases of systems development, allowing a complete understanding of business needs, and documenting the end-state system with clear requirements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/novarica.com\/developing-and-utilizing-use-cases-key-issues-and-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> for the table of contents or to access the report.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"smallhead\"><b>About Novarica<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Novarica helps more than 100 insurers make better decisions about technology projects and strategy through retained advisory services, published research, and strategy consulting. Its knowledge base covers trends, benchmarks, best practices, case studies, and vendor solutions. Leveraging the expertise of its senior team and more than 300 CIO Research Council members, Novarica provides clients with the ability to make faster, better, more informed decisions. Its consulting services focus on vendor selection, custom benchmarking, project checkpoints, and IT strategy. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/novarica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.novarica.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"referencetext\"><i>Source: Novarica<\/i><\/p>\n<p> Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurance-canada.ca\/tag\/best-practices\/\" rel=\"tag\">best practices<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurance-canada.ca\/tag\/brief\/\" rel=\"tag\">brief<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurance-canada.ca\/tag\/collaboration\/\" rel=\"tag\">Collaboration<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurance-canada.ca\/tag\/it\/\" rel=\"tag\">IT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurance-canada.ca\/tag\/novarica\/\" rel=\"tag\">Novarica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurance-canada.ca\/tag\/use-cases\/\" rel=\"tag\">use cases<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurance-canada.ca\/2020\/08\/19\/novarica-developing-use-cases-business-it-collaboration\/\">Read the original article at Insurance-Canada.ca <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Novarica brief describes the challenges and best practices for utilizing use cases to understand business and IT goals throughout the project lifecycle Boston, MA (Aug. 11, 2020) \u2013 A common understanding across the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}