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Scenario planning

Scenario planning

- User scenario is of a subway map of any system or business process. A product is built to support the different paths and scenarios of the various users. Doing great analysis work is about identifying, analyzing, and communicating these various scenarios. Doing this well allows teams to work with a user focus without compromising transparency and while producing demoable working software or process improvements. Let me give an example. When you enter a secure building using a badge to gain access, the user story or start of the conversation is, "As an employee, I want to enter the building so I can go to work." This is a big user story. It needs a lot of analysis, elaboration, and decomposition. There are a lot of conversations to have with this one. It seems simple, but not so fast. There is far more analysis to do here. There are many scenarios to accompany this and that need to be identified. Let's look at what the various scenarios might be. First, we need to identify the…

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