Use Case: Project Progress Report One of the biggest issues with project management is updating, tracking, and reporting the progress of a project. How often should progress be updated? How often should progress reports be distributed? To whom should progress reports be distributed? In what form should progress reports be distributed? What software programs can or should be used? How safe is the project progressing? As part of the development of need in the initial investigation phase in the systems development life cycles (SDLC) process, a construction method is a use case. Use case is a technique for capturing requirements with scenarios written in non-technical terminology that describe how a system interacts with a user or another system (University of Phoenix, Course Syllabus, 2006). There are two key elements to keep in mind, along with how they relate: the actors and the objectives. The actors are everyone and everything that will be used (or will be used) in the project progress reports and objectives, which are what the actors want to achieve. The use case will describe the objectives achieved by the actors carrying out the activities (Carr & Meehan, 2005). Applying the use case to project progress reports Project progress reports allow those who determine progress on a project to record what and how much has been accomplished on the project, managers to monitor progress for decision making and those who rely on the status of project progress for related activities, to inform and be informed about project progress. The tasks of the actors include carrying out the project work, recording and editing the project work performed and reviewing the progress of the project to achieve the objectives, together with the administration...... half of the document ... ... progress of the project? have been addressed. References Carr, N. & Meehan, T., (2005). What's the problem? Retrieved October 14, 2006, from http://alistapart.com/articles/whatstheproblemCockburn, A. (2006). Use case fundamentals. Retrieved October 14, 2006, from http://members.aol.com/acockburn/papers/AltIntro.htmStair, R. & Reynolds, G. (2003). Fundamentals of Information Systems, Second Edition. [University of Phoenix Custom Edition Electronic Text]. Boston. MA: Course Technology, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Retrieved October 1, 2006, from University of Phoenix, Resource, CIS564 V Website Information Management in Business Course.University of Phoenix. (2006). Course program. Retrieved September 26, 2006, from University of Phoenix, CIS/564.4 - Information Management in Business Website, https://classroom.phoenix.edu/afm203/secure/view-thread.jspa?threadID=1176244