Type: Rules
Gist
Using a smart way of finding the use cases to start with
Note: You may want to replace 'use case' with 'feature'.
Principles and Notes
You should start with a use case that has the following properties:
Note: You are not supposed to use all principles at once. Focus on 1-3 principles. Discuss with your sponsor, which principles you should use. Proposal: use 2 principles to find the initial order. Use a third principle to move use cases forth and back in this order.
R1: a key stakeholder is an actor to the use case
R2: the actor has been determined as 'primary'
R3: the use case's development is particularly risky or it's attainability is uncertain (due to technical or organizational issues, for example)
R4: it is a use cases within a core business process
R5: the use cases yields high business value
R6: the use cases yields high ratio of business value to costs
R7: there is a business related dependency to another use case wich uses the business results of the first
R8: the use case is part of a business process and it makes sense - from a business point of view - to first complete all use cases for this process
R9: the team can gain knowledge (about the domain, the project, the product) from implementing a use case
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10 Deadly Sins of Estimation (on Seer)
- [http://www.gilb.com/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=2&postId=10&highlight=estimation Excellent Material on Professional Estimation (on Gilb website
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