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The 8 Most Used Flowchart Shapes You Should Know

Posted by on Dec 7, 2011 in technical writing | 0 comments

The 8 Most Used Flowchart Shapes You Should Know

Tweet   Flowcharts are a great way to show any type of process, organization structure, or brainstorming diagram.  Shapes and arrows are used to represent a pictorial view of what you are trying to convey.  I get asked all the time what each of the shapes that are used mean. I decided to describe the most-used shapes that can aid you in creating your own flowchart:  - A rectangle is used to create a process step, which...

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How to Write an Effective Functional Use Case

Posted by on Nov 17, 2009 in technical writing | 0 comments

Tweet I’ve been spending my days creating and analyzing business use cases for a project that I’m on. It is tedious work but it’s necessary, so the design team can go in there and create a stable and useful system. Use cases are an analysis of a particular business process. It explains the functional step to go through a process. You shouldn’t get involved in how the system will work and how to improve it. This...

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