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Subject:Re: use cases - what are they good for From:TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 16 Jan 2005 02:46:37 -0500
If you can author procedures without knowing in what cases the users
will be using the product, then you're an extremely valuable asset to
the world of technical documentation! ;-)
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:52:42 -0500, Neumann, Eileen
<ENeuman -at- franklintempleton -dot- ca> wrote:
>
> Does anyone use 'use cases' to develop / write procedures? I've been investigating this topic, and it seems that use cases are very good for explaining how various systems and / or people interact. However, I'm thinking that they are not going to be of use to my type of documentation. I am writing a user guide for processors in a financial institution - basically giving them instructions on how to perform various tasks on a large database. The goal is having easy to understand task based instructions. The procedure is written from a processor's point of view.
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