Re: Agile Baby Steps

Jim,

> Thanks so much for sharing!

It was great exercise.  Keeping a diary helped me reflect on what was 
happening as it happened.  I recommend it.

> My team has taken some half-steps toward agile 
> practices and I'm always looking for things to encourage them to take more.

I hope that people will find it encouraging.
 
> BTW: How did the idea of someone turning stories into use cases work out? 
> My line is that if a story is a promise to have a conversation, the use 
> case is the record of the story. I think we're doing well with that. Our 
> formal testers and others rely heavily on the requirements in ReqPro that 
> we build up in the use cases, so I don't think we'll stop writing them any 
> time soon.

It didn't work as well as I had hoped due to the QA guy eventually 
disconnecting from the team until we had our first fully functional version.  His 
involvement during the Release Planning was helpful to him as he generated 
his Use Cases and we generated Stories.  But as he drifted away, our 
conversations with the Customer cleared up some misunderstandings and 
brought out some new Stories.  Now that he's finally testing, several of the 
Use Cases are out of date.

--Dave


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