This course is a thorough presentation of strategies, techniques, and practical how-to advice for building better object models. Instructors walk through the process of building object models in UML, starting with samples that you build, and moving into modeling your specific domain. Central to the course is the powerful technique of using color to create, organize, and refine object models.

The course is a fast paced mixture of hands-on modeling exercises and lecture snippets. The workshop gives participants a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of building UML models - identifying purpose and features, selecting object, establishing responsibilities, and working out dynamics with sequence diagrams.

The course will cover all of the UML diagram types. Although the course is not process specific, it will include examples of how the diagrams are used with different processes.

The course consists mostly of pencil-and-paper sessions with the option of using Together ControlCenter, with some lecture and foils. Participants will spend most of their time working in groups of two or three, drawing and analyzing diagrams.

• Read all types of UML diagrams with understanding
• Develop an object model for a domain and record it as a class diagram
• Identify appropriate uses for UML diagrams in popular object-oriented development methodologies
• Identify the major features and elements of all UML diagram types and explain their significance