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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Giorgio on February 10, 2015, 02:12:26 am
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I have my solution specifications defined completely in enterprise architect (mainly business process, domain model and use cases diagrams). Now I need to have my customer approving them.
The customer is not an IT experts and my first solution was to export in docx and submit to the customer.
Unfortunately this solution has a few drawbacks:
- every time the documentation is generated it rebuilds entirely the documents, this means that every time you generate you need to read it all (400 pages) to be sure that your latest changes did not impact the full document
- once the customer submit his comments it is not always easy to find exactly where the modification applies from the EA model
- after modification applied and we submit again the document, which needs to be regenerated, the customer struggles to find again the points where he had his comments (needs a side by side word which works but not very user friendly)
Does anybody had similar situation and can suggest efficient solution for customer (mainly business expert, not IT experts) to review and approve specification define in Enterprise Architect?
Thanks in advance
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This was one of the reasons I created my documents using the API. You might as well have a look into eaDocX. I can't tell if it will solve all your problems but most likely it will bring some relief compared to the RTF generator that comes along with EA.
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Would providing them with EA lite help? There are plenty of non-technical people that use EA. That would mean that they could use the team review or element discussions to provide feedback directly within the model. Meanwhile, there's no document to generate and review frequently.
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I also suggested that to my clients. But simply speaking: no. The customer will see paper. People are so conservative. I often could sit down in a dark room and cry :(
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