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Re: Documentation Correctness was Re: How many levels of indents and heads are reasonable?
Subject:Re: Documentation Correctness was Re: How many levels of indents and heads are reasonable? From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:29:10 -0700 (PDT)
By UML I assume you mean Use Cases and/or Activity Diagrams. (Those are the two functional modeling techniques within the UML.)
The interrelationships are most often data flows. Only data flow diagrams capture the data flows.
Generic Richard
John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
UML.
It's EXACTLY what it's for.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"They say everyone needs goals. Mine is to live forever.
So far, so good."
> Please tell me of one source that discusses the importance
> of rigorously identifying the interrelationships between tasks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Generic Richard
>> Bill Swallow wrote:
>> Tony, where the heck do you come up with this stuff? I can't speak for
>> all schools, but I certainly studied task analysis (many methods)
>> while obtaining my degree in communication.
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