• Requirements
• Program Designs
• Documentation
• Test scripts

Your diagrams can range from informal outlines to precise program specifications. You are not locked into a particular methodology. B-liner allows you to move seamlessly from requirements to design to coding to documentation.

We use B-liner to: 

• develop the structure and content of classes and presentations 
• test the relationship between ideas (and not just simple processes) 
• analyze the logic of complex offers and counteroffers 
• even brainstorm new ideas 

I have used the new spreadsheet feature to develop and present urgent project proposals, and to develop and test the logic and relationships of processes.  With the spreadsheet feature, I can create specialized grids which work directly with a visible and simple structure that immediately demonstrates the consequences of any discussed changes.  Project management tools are wonderful and we use them, but B-liner helps us to understand and demonstrate the logical consequences of changes. 

I have been using B-liner as an excellent tool to communicate, and document information systems.  It is a tool that is very easy to use and understand.  It is a tool that is easy to get people to use.  It is a tool that allows programmers to write correct programs that usually run on the very first try. 

I will recommend this product to every one who wants to organize anything in a logical and effective way. 

Analysis/Design Tool

This worked so well we have also used it in conjunction with a data flow diagram.  We took the data flow diagram and only did 2 levels of decomposition.  The subsequent levels were then handled with B-liner.  This produced a very clear document which our Business Users loved, especially the cross-referenced first page which gives a high level overview of the document. 

After analysis we continued to use the tool for design.  We added sections for tables/object/classes, etc.

I have also used this tool for describing the environment in which a system has been implemented - everything from platforms to database names / accounts and program names  / locations.  This has become invaluable document for transitioning a project to new people. 

We did not use this tool for pseudo coding.  Instead we used it to document the program flows, i.e. which program calls which other programs and a high level logic description / flow.

Used for the following general functions: 

• Keep track of names/telephone numbers
• General information organized by subject
• Meeting notes
• etc...

Being that I came from an Engineering background, this tool allows me to organize almost any topic into a very logical, easy to follow format.  Whereas others (without the help of B-liner) try to organize notes in a text format, I can organize the same set of notes in a much shorter document that is much clearer.

With B-liner on my notebook computer, I am now able to construct solutions in front of a class or project development group.  It makes walk-throughs and dynamic changes easy to do.  This is not possible using the old paper approach.  Six team members would come out of the meeting with six different diagrams. 

I use the spreadsheet feature to quickly scope a project by defining the task along the critical path and attaching rough time estimates to them.  I have now made it a point to use B-liner in front of any programming classes I teach.  It makes a very good impression, and I am always asked to post on the board the URL where it can be obtained. 

• algorithmic description of an activity, i.e. instructions to do something 
• work breakdown structure 
• decision tree (this is where the spreadsheet feature can really help) 
• prototype fault tree analysis 
• project taxonomy 
• quick organization charts 
• analysis of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards