Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Letters: Feedback to Use Cases still Dangerous! (01 Nov 1999) Use cases are just re-cycled Data Flow Diagrams. Use cases are problematic today for the same reason DFDs were problematic 15 years ago. They document existing processes (in a laborious and time consuming way). The basic problem is most people can't abstract. And of those who can, most are not very good at it. The Anti-Patterns book goes on about people not being able to abstract in a different context. Hence for most people a detailed exposition of a possible system solution becomes THE SYSTEM. Article URL: http://www.uidesign.net/feedback/1999/nov_letter1.html Read 102 more articles from uidesign.net sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Letters: Not MVC but Mediator Pattern This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy