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From: "Arne Vajhøj" <arne.vajhøj@1:261/38.remove-odu-this>
Subject: Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases?
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  To: Lew
From: "Arne Vajhoj" <arne.vajhoj@1:261/38.remove-nlb-this>

  To: Lew
From: Arne Vajhoj <arne@vajhoej.dk>

On 8/7/2012 4:47 PM, Lew wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 11:26:41 AM UTC-7, David Lamb wrote:
>> Does anyone have data, or at least an informed opinion, on how often
>> genuine users of a proposed piece of software get consulted on
>> developing use cases (or some close equivalent)? I ask here because of
>> the recent UML discussion and because I've seen people, especially Lew,
>> mention use cases reasonably frequently.
>
> I mention use cases in a rather abstract sense, that is, to signify the
underlying
> phenomenon of a collection of circumstances and needs. You seem to use the
> term in a more restricted sense of the documentation of such phenomena.
>
> These are distinct things. The report is not the situation on the ground.

Real use cases are widely used.

(and UML use case diagrams are actually pretty nice to give an overview of them 
including the relationships between them)

Agile user stories are also widely used, so there are alternatives.

Arne

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