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2. Creating winning teams.
Use Case History
1969 2016Leading the industry for 45 years
• Coaching, training and consulting in
IT system development best practices
• Focus on agile transformation
and self sustainability
• Practice agnostic, solution based
on engagement requirements
• Accelerating and de-risking change
• “Creating winning teams” through
skills and knowledge transfer
• Helping organisations do it
Better, Faster, Cheaper, Happier
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5. Creating winning teams.
Driving development with slices
Start of use case
End of use case
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
Step 7
Alt 1
Alt 2
Alt 3
Alt 4
1 Use Case Many slices…
6. Creating winning teams.
Customer: Dutch Railways
• Dutch Public
transportation
• 24 x 7 x 365
• 5200 trains a day
• 600.000
passengers a day
• 11.000 FTE
7. Creating winning teams.
The challenge
• Replacement of (obsolete) handheld device by
mobile (phone) apps
• Transformation from RUP based development
process to Scrum
• New technology
8. Creating winning teams.
Assignment Ivar Jacobson International & DiVetro
• Feed the App factory with user stories
• Ensure up-to-date system documentation (use cases)
• Keep the big picture and scope in mind
• Do it fast!
Develop a new agile way of working within the current
process
9. Creating winning teams.
Starting point
TEAM
Developers, Testers,
Scrum master (external)
PO (Dutch Railways)
UX designer (Dutch Railways)
Analyst (DiVetro)
Backend team – to manage all the
backend systems
WORK
Combination of Scrum and Kanban
REQUIREMENTS
Needs & Features (Vision)
Initial Use Case Model
Some use case narratives
with lots of colours
OPPORTUNITY
Clear business case
STAKEHOLDERS
Over 40
10. Creating winning teams.
From Features to Epic (stories)
• Focus on what does the user really need?
• Use “Story” template to record needs
• Add “Acceptance criteria” to each Epic story
• Create product backlog (with epics stories)
• Prioritize the backlog
• Most Epics were too big to be handled by the team
E01 Call relevant
generic contacts
E02 Call location
based contacts
E03 Create a list of
favorite numbers
E08 Manage contact
information remotely
11. Creating winning teams.
Align Epics and Use Cases
Actor 01
(from
Actors)
Actor 02
(from
Actors)
Actor 03
(from
Actors)
(from Heavy Molecule)
Use Case 01
(from Heavy Molecule)
Use Case 02
(from Heavy Molecule)
Use Case 03
(from Heavy Molecule)
Use Case 04
Actor 06
(from
Actors)
Actor 05
(from
Actors)
«include»
E01 Call relevant
generic contacts
E02 Call location
based contacts
E03 Create a list of
favorite numbers
Divide Epics into stories and
relate them to a Use Case
Divide Use Cases into slices
and place them under an Epic
12. Creating winning teams.
Lessons learned
• Slicing use cases (to user stories)
effectively is an art
• Don’t rely on paper only
• Don’t confuse the team with future changes
13. Creating winning teams.
Result
• Aligned process that supports the App factory
• Up-to-date system documentation after each sprint
• Best practice project in agile working
14. Creating winning teams.
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Editor's Notes
OUTLINE (Conference side)
In some cases user stories are enough, but not when the number of user stories begins to grow, or when you develop enterprise systems for banks, insurance, telecom operations, defense or other large scale or regulated industries. The answer is Use-Case 2.0 – the agile way of doing use cases. Use-Case 2.0 ‘slices-up’ use cases to provide an iterative agile approach that can provide just-enough information as needed or can be zoomed-in for more detail. This session explores how Dutch Railways kept development on track and delivered the right level at the right time by applying Use-Case 2.0 with help from Ivar Jacobson International and DiVetro.
Lots of people in the organisation that have been on the pre-iji UP Journey
Simple picture…. Loads of slices all over the screen…. One simple build puts them into use case context
Simple picture…. Loads of slices all over the screen…. One simple build puts them into use case context
NS had to deal with a variety of challenges. Besides the one on the slide alignment of business was also an issue
Replacement of (obsolete) handheld device by mobile (phone) apps
Mission critical software
“No” slack in the deadline (hardware not supported any more)
Transformation from RUP based development process to Scrum
Development done by “third party” App factory
RUP based requirements vs user stories to ran the App factory
New technology
Azure, Airwatch, Xamarin
Reusable services (multiple hardware devices)
Use cases are too big for the factory
Mission critical software so proper documentation is needed
More than one project (TimTim, EKT etc…)
We had to jump on a moving train
Slicing use cases (to user stories) effectively is an art
involving the whole team helps!
Get everyone on the same page
Don’t rely on paper only
Use alignment workshops!
Don’t confuse the team with future changes
Only specify what is needed in the sprint! – Don’t tell what’s coming down the line.
