RE: Ideas for Screen Map in Visio?

[donaluisa_nwr -at- comcast -dot- net (DonaLuisa)]

Just today--a few minutes ago--my boss stopped by my office and asked me to check out a product, http://www.casecomplete.com/Default.aspx. She heard about it from an IT business analyst who recently started with us and used it in a former job. 

My boss is thinking I could learn to use it to map out process requirements so that others in the org can visually see what we're trying to accomplish. 

The site says, "CaseComplete provides rich diagramming capabilities allowing you to create a wide variety of diagrams that elucidate your requirements.  Sharing your diagrams with stakeholders is easy because they are automatically inserted into your generated Word reports, bringing your use cases, requirements and diagrams together in one spot."

I'm just starting to figure it out. Has anyone else used this? 
-Donna 



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From: "Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>
> I am not sure about what Visio is capable of, but if you can get away
> from Visio, PowerPoint is great for accomplishing exactly what you are
> talking about. With PowerPoint, you can add as much meta-data as you
> need and simulate actual work flows by adding live links from GUI to
> GUI. Power-Point also gives you the added benefit of being able to
> output to HTML (so anyone with a browser can "run" the spec).  
> 
> Leonard C. Porrello
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> I'm using Visio to make a map of all the screens in a software 
> application. The images are scaled down but (just) readable, and show 
> the links between screens, tabs within screens, links to external 
> applications, and so on.
> 
> This project has parallel development streams so there are people and 
> teams working on overlapping parts of the application. The map will be 
> used by the developers, designers, system architects, BAs, user reps, 
> testers, etc. The plan is to have a printed version on several A0 sheets
> 
> stuck up on the wall of a 'war room', and perhaps an online version in 
> Sharepoint.
> 
> For now the map is just a static display of how each screen looks in the
> 
> latest version. It could be nice to have some metadata for each screen 
> and perhaps links to each unique version of the screen in different 
> releases--e.g. how it looked when it was first added in R6, the updated 
> version in R8 and the latest prototype planned for R10.
> 
> 
> Do you have any other ideas for useful information or functions I could 
> add to the map? Of course I'm asking the people who'll be using it, but 
> I wanted to get your suggestions too. I know some of you have done 
> 'active diagrams' like this.
> 
> Thanks, Stuart
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