Tools, Frameworks, and Templates for Product Managers
A Scenario and Feature Frame is a quick way to show your project’s incremental value and dependencies. It’s helpful for showing your management what you’ll deliver in terms of a baseline release. It’s helpful for you in terms of finding ways to reduce dependencies. If you have a bunch of scenarios that depend on certain …
Photo by Wonderlane What’s a scenario? Not everybody uses the term “scenario” the same way. In the software industry, there’s three common usages of scenario: The same as a use case. A path through a use case. An instance of a use case. Usually, the most helpful one is “an instance of a use case.” …
“Use cases are to software what stories are to novels.” — Unknown As a software developer or a product manager, writing use cases can be an essential step in the development process to ensure that the software solution meets the needs of its users. Use cases can help you to understand the requirements of the …
This is one of my favorite figures that shows how we do solution engineering in patterns & practices at Microsoft: Architectural Scenarios It all starts with a scenario. It has to be a meaningful problem. You can’t evaluate an architecture in a vacuum. In order for us to build useful baseline architectures, we need …
