Conduct interviews with several developers regarding their views on use-case modeling. If possible, try to find developers from different organizations and/or with different lengths of experience, as well as different types of experience (i.e., a developer who has experience mostly as a systems analyst, one mostly as a designer, and one as a builder).

a. Describe the developers that you interviewed in terms of their experience. For example, how long have they worked in IT, what is their area of expertise, and how familiar are they are with use-case modeling?

b. What is the nature of their organization(s)?

c. What questions did you ask?

d. What are the viewpoints of each developer regarding the importance and value of use-case modeling?

e. Do these developers actually employ use-case modeling in their current organization? Why or why not?

f. If they were CIOs of their organization for a day, would they change their organization’s IT architecture regarding use-case modeling? If so, how?

g. Using the capability maturity model, how would you rate the maturity level of their organization? Why?

h. What conclusions, if any, can you draw from the interviews regarding the practical application of use-case modeling?

i. What were your views regarding the importance and value of use-ease modeling before the interviews? Did your views change any as a result of the interviews? If so, how did they change and why?