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I posted some articles on the site today that were in my email list or somewhere on the blog or somewhere on my hard drive
These are on the Use Case page and Determine Requirements page. I also added new [...]

Author: Geri Schneider Winters
An interesting question came up in another forum, and I would like to address it here because I think it is a common one.
I am currently struggling introducing use cases into a large product development organization and a prime obstacle I am facing is that one use case should be all sort [...]

Author: Geri Schneider Winters
With all the focus on Use Cases, it can be easy to forget that they are not the only kind of requirements. Use Cases are very good for some kinds of requirements, but really bad for other kinds of requirements. One of our challenges as Business Analysts is to determine the [...]

Author: Geri Schneider Winters
Another great question came from Adesh Sharma about whether or not he could write alternatives to alternatives in use cases.
There is no actual standard for the formatting of a use case, just guidelines and best practices. Your primary goal in writing use cases is communication. No matter how you structure a use [...]

Author: Geri Schneider Winters
I get my best ideas for these tips from you, my readers. This tip is a response to a question from Pete McNally on how to document requirements for reports and whether or not those requirements should be use cases.
Use cases are really meant for describing a process or task. If [...]

Author: Geri Schneider Winters
When you find an alternative to a use case basic flow, you have two different ways to handle it. One way is to put the alternative in the steps of the basic flow. That way of handling alternatives was described in a previous tip.
Another way to handle alternatives is to make a [...]