My Topic for the 2009 CFUnited conference was announced today: Design Diagrams for CFCs and Databases. The presentation covers creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Entity Relationship (ER) Diagrams.

Use Cases are one of the first steps of the design phase in software engineering. They are really simple diagrams you can easily make - they are easy enough to understand and create that you can show them to your customer, or boss. Use cases are also part of UML.