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User Stories and Use Cases

Posted on: February 2, 2009

User Stories are one of the key agile artifacts for helping implementation teams deliver the most important capabilities first. They differ from use cases in some important ways, but share more commonalities than you might think.

Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Uncategorized / Use Cases

Use Case To Actor Mapping

Posted on: June 9, 2008

We know the importance of identifying the use cases that enable our business goals. We also know the value of understanding the actors that will use our products. This article shows how to demonstrate a simple but powerful view that maps the use cases to the actors.

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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Apr 12]

Posted on: April 12, 2008April 20, 2008

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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Mar 22]

Posted on: March 22, 2008March 22, 2008

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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Mar 15]

Posted on: March 15, 2008March 15, 2008

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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Mar 8]

Posted on: March 8, 2008

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Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Dec 29]

Posted on: December 29, 2007January 5, 2008

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Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements gathering

Avoid the Abilene Paradox

Posted on: November 8, 2007

An excellent article by Jonathan Babcock raises a thought provoking idea. When gathering requirements, we can end up with requirements that no one actually wants, because everyone thought someone else wanted it. This is apparently known as the Abilene Paradox, a term coined by Jerry Harvey. We can apply our […]

Business Analysis / Product Management / Requirements / Requirements Models / Use Cases

Elastic Users, Actors, and Roles

Posted on: July 23, 2007July 23, 2007

In About Face 2.0, Alan Cooper describes the elastic user as an ill-defined user who’s characteristics change to suit the needs of the developer – sometimes an expert and sometimes a novice. However, some of the otherwise good techniques for managing actors and use cases exacerbate this problem instead of […]

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