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Use Case vs. Process Flow – Failure Handling

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Should you use use cases or process flow diagrams to document business requirements? At some level, they both document the same thing, they just document it differently. The best requirements will come from doing both – but what if you are forced to choose one? What are the tradeoffs between use cases and process flows? In this article we look at the documentation of failure handling.

Business Process Modeling / Requirements / Requirements gathering

BPMN Diagrams – Play Catch With Intermediate Errors

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Business Processes might start out as easy-to-diagram simple processes. Over time, these processes get more complex, as they have to deal with real-world considerations and unanticipated situations. Things can go wrong. Classical flow diagramming gets complex when dealing with errors or exceptions in a process, while BPMN modeling keeps things simple.