Use Cases: The Business Analyst’s Best Friend

Use cases are a powerful requirements elicitation and analysis tool that have unfortunately fallen out of favor. Use them anyway!

Karl Wiegers
Analyst’s corner
Published in
10 min readFeb 1, 2024

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I like use cases. There, I said it, and I’m not sorry. Use cases have fallen out of fashion in recent years, being largely replaced by user stories on agile projects. The…

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Karl Wiegers
Analyst’s corner

Author of 14 books, mostly on software. PhD in organic chemistry. Guitars, wine, and military history fill the voids. karlwiegers.com and processimpact.com