[usconservative]

I'm a business analyst. Did you know that Business requirements are going from hundreds of pages of text to 'cartoons' interspersed with text? It's because a picture is worth a thousand words.

For what it's worth, the developers love it.

Are you referring to UML? If so, it's not just developers who love it. A well done UML diagram is easily understood by business users (at least, the ones I deal with) and everyone from our business requirements analysts, business users, developers, infrastructure architecture, engineering and operations folks absolutely love it. Even our Project Managers and Internal Audit folks love it.

I've lived in all those worlds, now I make my bread and butter doing business and IT process optimization as I've "lived" in just about every part of the bank and UML fits perfectly in that world too.

I was introduced and learned UML back in 2003 at version 2. Been using it since.

[cuban leaf]

UML is part of it. We use Visio, iRise and other tools for all sorts of graphic representations of requirements.

Everyone is a visual learner. It’s how human beings work. When people can easily visualize a solution they know when they have found it.