Seamless Techniques Expressed in Prescribed Steps (STEPS) is a powerful and groundbreaking feature for software development. Like a recipe that tells you how to cook a meal, STEPS are recipes that lead you through a series of well-defined steps for conducting a particular (reusable) analysis or modeling pattern. Listed below are the wizards available. If you are using Visual Paradigm, you can import a wizard from the page and start working.
| STEPS Wizard | Objectives |
| Use Case 2.0 |
- Identify the goals to be achieved as use cases
- Identify the specific ways to achieve these goals as use case stories
- Partition the stories into suitably sized pieces of work, known as use case slices
- Produce a release plan
- Plan out development tasks to be conducted in implementing the use cases
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| Develop MVC Sequence Diagrams from CRUD Model |
- Identify business entities for problem domain using conceptual ERD
- Identify business services required for the problem based in basic CRUD operations
- Elaborate the business services into MVC multiple layers of usage scenarios using sequence diagrams
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| Develop CRUD Chart from DFD |
- Interrelate processes and data stores with CRUD operations (CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE)
- Visualize the CRUD operations in a matrix format for further analysis
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| Competitive Analysis with Radar Chart |
- Clearly displays the important categories
- Clearly defines full performance in each category
- Makes concentrations of strengths and deficiencies visible
- Automatic transform data into tabular format for further actions and comments
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| Capability Maturity Assessment |
- Stock taking of capability of an enterprise in a holistic view
- Visualize the capability level of an enterprise as a whole
- Identify what areas of the enterprise are required to increase or optimize capability
- Identify the architectural focus areas that will support the development of the architecture
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| Capability Based Transformation Planning |
- Stock taking of capability of an enterprise in a holistic view
- Identify the transformation strategy required to realize each of the capability
- Identify what action(s) are required to perform during the transformation
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