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(responding to Narendiran.C) ... Hi. It's been quiet recently, but some of us are still here... =========================================================== Our...
... Okay, serious topic... (comparatively) I have been advising a team who were getting themselves into a muddle with Use Cases, putting a lot of the detail...
What Scott says is certainly in keeping with the approach I recommend, which involves building the details of use cases in stages. Start with the names and...
Kendall, After starting with a name and a brief description, what additional value is derived from formally fleshing out the rest of the use case details (even...
(responding to Kendall) ... Definitely. ... I think it's a mindset where the worker is concentrating on producing an artefact rather than adding the value....
During a recent consulting gig, we actually had both use cases and the combination of user stories/acceptance tests. The use cases were a more comfortable...
One of my recent consulting clients had that very mindset: The published document is what really matters. I did my best to try and convince them that the...
I think that the reason people tend to wrangle use-cases is that it is very hard to find the core of what is needed. I have seen these use cases again and...
We seem to talk a lot about the role of 'developer'. I work in a shop that is heavily slanted to the 'creative'. We have a number of interesting design roles:...
Paul (and Kendall), I've been using the term "Baby Steps" for my approach to process improvement for 20+ years (I've just been too busy raising kids to write...
Personally, I believe it's fully agile to iterate on design artifacts before beginning coding, rather than waiting to iterate until you have working code. This...
Hi Some reasons I think make difficult to achieve the right balance between breadth and depth: a- In order to identify riscs, some details are needed b- If it...
After 9 years of use case muddling, I think there are justifiable reasons why people struggle with use cases (and I STILL do!) I don't find the UML aspect of...
Bernie, you're right on the money here. I'm a software designer who is a recipient of Use Cases. These are normally the "fully dressed" variety and as such...
(responding to Bernie) ... True, but I don't WANT a consistent, standard approach, I want to be able to tailor my approach to the situation.... ... Or we could...
Actually, Microsoft has been promoting agile approaches for awhile now. The Agile MSF is definitely worth looking at if you get a chance. - Scott ... ...
We use "use cases" to collect and prioritize scenarios and "elaborated use cases" to do scenario exploration and catalog exceptions and alternative flows. From...
... ... Our process is very similar to this, though perhaps not as fully developed. We write use cases with single scenarios - alternatives ans exceptions...
... ... Our process is very similar to this, though perhaps not as fully developed. We write use cases with single scenarios - alternatives ans exceptions...
Just thought you might like http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20051116.html My apologies if you receive this several times. - Scott ...
the steer... along with kendall's and scott's why bother doing such huge, voluminous use cases in the first place? I think the problem with use cases is not...
Below is the CFP for the Agile 2006 conference in North America. As you can imagine, I would love to see submissions for agile approaches to modeling,...