Reporting Use Cases

 

How to you get a complete set of use cases for reporting information?

• Reporting is very important for lots of systems
• Reporting is boring for implementors, so they can underestimate the effort required to produce reports.
• Reporting can be boring to model, too.
• Reporting is often boring to one of users or stakeholders, while simultaneously crucial to the others.

Therefore: Ensure you have at least twenty reporting use cases.

Even though reporting is boring, if it's important to someone, you have to model it. This will also ensure you capture all the important cases someone will need to report on, and ensure your effort estimates are correct if you are using use cases to drive estimation.

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