Patterns for Effective Use Cases

Acknowledgments

This book has been a long time in the making. It has seen many rewrites and has been influenced by many people. We would like to thank our families, who had to put up with our zany brainstorming and arm-wrestling writing sessions, especially our wives Fariba and Christine, who proofread and edited this text countless times. Also, Elizabeth, Michael, and Rebecca for being patient with their daddy as he wrote on “their” computer.

Alistair Cockburn, Andy Pols, Steve, and Paul jointly put the structure of the pattern language in place in a series of work sessions we loosely termed Bear Plop, Horse Plop, and Bird Plop. Through those sessions, we identified the overall pattern language structure and the initial names, forces, and resolutions ...