Do you use UML for defining business processes?

Tomas

Hi, All,

Just out of interest. Do you use UML in AS-IS,TO-BE,GAP,ETC analysis?

If yes, which diagrams are most frequently used? Which tools do you use?
If no, why not?

Waldo

We don't use it.

May be only for business process (which you could define in use cases and may be collaboration diagrams), but when you start designing your solution, you'll find that class diagrams and stuff are not useful. Mainly because UML focuses on OO languages ... C/AL is not OO at all.

This is only my opinion ...

garak

in some cases i use UML but not in all.
It's also only for me, because my customer (or my boss) doesn't understand it.

Tomas

I wonder how guys for SAP are doing things

I was trying to draw several UML cases, and Sequence diagrams with Rational Rose Modeler, but... it's much more harder to describe how NAV works in UML, then in simple real life words

kine

Exactly - sometime I create some small diagram for me to make the thoughts clear for myself. We are doing some diagrams of the processes for the customers too to describe the processes, but mainly when doing the ISO 900x implementation...