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Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases?

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On 07/08/2012 5:23 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>       And it could just be that the customer really does not know what
> he wants.  You can try describing it, but too often, he nods and then
> complains later that it was not what he expected.  Or the old "That's
> just what I said, but it's not what I want!"

I understand that. I was under the impression that "user centred design" 
involved a collection of practices meant to improve communication 
between customers and developers, of which UML use cases were one 
example.  In fact I recently read parts of the 3 UML books I have on 
hand (reference, user's guide, and Unified Process) and found a 
statement to the effect that use cases in particular were designed to 
improve communications.

But, as I said in answer to Lew upthread, I should have made clearer 
that use cases were just one example of the kind of user-centred 
requirements elicitation mechanisms I had in mind.

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Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-08-07 14:26 -0400
  Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-07 22:13 +0200
  Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 13:47 -0700
    Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-08-07 14:23 -0700
      Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 14:54 -0700
      Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-08-08 09:47 -0400
        Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-08-08 09:48 -0700
        Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-12 22:57 -0400
    Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-08-08 09:44 -0400
    Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-12 22:53 -0400
  Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-08-08 11:41 +0300
  Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-12 22:48 -0400
    Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-08-13 05:32 -0500
      Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-08-14 12:35 -0700
      Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-08-14 15:35 -0500
        Re: Who gets interviewed to produce use cases? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-08-15 09:32 -0700

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