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Subject:Re: When a Use Case in no longer a Use Case From:Thom Randolph <thom -at- tctrandolph -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:47:16 -0800
It sounds like everyone currently knows them as Use Cases, and since there
doesn't seem to be anything _missing_ from the Use Case portion, how about
calling them "Use Case and Design" documents? Remember, even after adding
whipped cream on top of chocolate cake, it's still chocolate cake.
Mmmmmm.....Chocolate!
Using a term that doesn't include "use case" is doing everyone a small
disservice, and will likely be resisted. UML and Use Cases have been slow
to catch on, and designing systems using them is somewhat a badge of honor
for systems designers. "Use Case" is just the latest incarnation of what
has previously been called "customer requirements analysis" and
"scenario-based design". Your clients want to use the current buzzword so
they can feel they're doing it the right way. Taking away that mark of
industry "leadership" is going to bruise everyone's egos and resumes.
That's not a prohibition against the change, just beware of what is really
behind their resistance.
Thom
At 12:21 PM 3/8/2002 -0500, you wrote:
I would like to stop calling them Use Cases....
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