Is your team focusing on the mechanics of creating good software, without understanding the connections from your efforts to your goals? Are you primarily focused on the structure of use cases, the syntax of user stories, and the cardinality of your domain diagrams? All of these things are important to […]
Use Cases for Iterative Development
Almost everything I’ve read about use cases focuses on describing what needs to be added to your product. Agile development says “get it working first, make it better second.” That means changing the way the software enables a user to do something they can already do. How do you manage […]
User Stories and Use Cases
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.
Use Case To Actor Mapping
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.
Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Apr 12]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Plan For Today, And Plan Correctly For Tomorrow
Instead of Prioritize the present when planning your product. Neglecting the future is almost as bad as over-emphasizing it. The key is to incorporate your plans for the future correctly by making them play second fiddle to the present needs of your market. Serve both today and tomorrow – but […]
Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Mar 22]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Mar 15]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Mar 8]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.