A previous IRM paper – How to use Use Cases – highlighted the need for clear and logical thinking when documenting the primary and alternate flows of a use case. A use case diagram is all well and good for communicating the scope of a particular event but to explain what’s happening inside the use case we need to revert back to a textual description. The How to use Use Cases paper described a relatively simple event – a student registering…
Stakeholder Communications – Pictures not Words
25/07/2007 |
By IRM Training
Many people on our Business Analysis workshop ask why we use dataflow diagrams (DFDs). Why not Use Case…or even BPMN? After all DFDs have been around for 20 years, surely the world has moved on? Well, has it? The primary purpose of a business analyst is to communicate – to stakeholders and to solution providers – and when it comes to communication we all know that pictures (diagrams) are much more effective and less ambiguous than words. Remember the phrase “A…