Checkpoints:  Business Use-Case Model

• Do the use cases conform to the business you want them to describe?
• Have all the use cases been found? The use cases should together perform all activities within the business.
• Are all activities within the business included in at least one use case?
• Is there a balance between the number and the size of the use cases?
• Is each use case unique? If not, consider merging it with a similar use case.
• Do the diagrams appear to be well-structured?
• Are the diagrams so large and complex that they should be broken down into several smaller diagrams?
• Have all business actors been found?
• Does each (human) business actor express a role, not a person? Try to name at least two people that can act as the actor.
• Does each business actor model something outside the business?
• Is each business actor involved with at least one use case? If not, remove it.

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