Chapter 7. Collaborating on Scenarios

“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.”

Captain, Road Prison 36, Cool Hand Luke

Debbie explains to Cathy how to create scenarios with use cases (see Figure 7.1). The triad constructs a use case for the user story about checking out a CD. Issues in collaboration are discussed.

Figure 7.1. Scenarios

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Use Cases from User Stories

Debbie explains to Cathy one way to discover the details of a user story. “We use a common technique called a use case.1 The use case describes a sequence of actions and reactions between the user and the software. There are several formal templates for a use case, but ...

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