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> The premise was centered on project management and the concept that the
> *outline* of the user manual and the software project specification could
be
> essentially the same thing and that both should be created at the outset
of
> the project.
A close parallel to this can be found in the application
of "use case" diagramming in the requirements-definition
phase.
A complete collection of use-case diagrams can serve
not only as the framework for more detailed design
specifications, but also as the high-level outline of the
user-assistance material. All of this con be done quickly,
easily, and fairly painlessly for the developers, since almost
no "writing" is required. A small collection of well-executed
use-case diagrams can contain more useful information than
a thousand garbled pages of traditional specification documents,
and in a fraction of the time.
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Michael West
Melbourne, Australia
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