Agile techniques: use cases versus user stories
“User stories are just use cases but in a different format”, the analist told me, “so why introduce a new name for a known thing?”
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Agile Open Day 2: some more pictures
The Agile Open 2011 are closed, but a few pics prove that these two days were valuable and fun.
Agile Techniques: Fruit Estimation Poker
Many agile teams use planning poker to estimate the relative size of items in their product backlog. Yet the usual planning poker with the (rounded) Fibonacci numbers can be applied the wrong way. Or better, in a suboptimal way. Fruit Estimation Poker to the rescue!
EA Tricks: Show Namespaces
By default, Enterprise Architect diagrams show for every element outside the diagram package the name of the package it belongs to. Especially for diagrams with lots of foreign elements, this adds to the clutter and readability suffers.
EA Tricks: A bunch of relations
In my work as a business analist for Vinimble, I discovered that there are three main groups of stakeholders, each with their own specific requirements. On the other hand, I also discovered that there are some requirements that are shared by all stakeholders. Let’s model that with Enterprise Architect.
Now available: Fifty Enterprise Architect Tricks – Black and White version
The book “Fifty Enterprise Architect Tricks” is available in black and white now.
Even better than Dropbox?
I admit: I am a Dropbox fan. It is fast, free, easy to use and I use it a lot. But there is one disadvantage: when you need lots of storage space, the free version is too limited (10GB with enough referrals).
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Agile Open 2011 (Ghent)
Friday May 20th and Saturday May 21st, agilists gather in Ghent for the 2011 Agile Open.
Genealogy with Enterprise Architect
As a modeling tool, Enterprise Architect is feature-rich, versatile and extensible. This page shows you how to build your family tree with Enterprise Architect, using a toolbox you can download for free below. Use it for fun, or to teach others how to work with the UML modeling tool.
