Scrum user role modeling
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The document discusses user role modeling techniques to avoid generic user story descriptions, emphasizing the importance of identifying diverse user types for application functionality. It highlights a collaborative process led by Mike Cohn that improves team understanding of user needs, facilitating better project outcomes. Maxcode, the IT service provider mentioned, focuses on creating tailored applications for the financial and healthcare sectors in Europe.
Scrum user role modeling
- 2. In order to prevent that every description of a User Story start with “As a user, I want to …” we use User Role Modeling techniques. Even with simple applications there is no such thing as ‘the user’.
- 3. Users with identical rights may approach an application in different ways.
- 4. Who is the user? Flickr user Ville Miettinen
- 5. Mike Cohn dedicates a chapter in his book “User Stories Applied” to determining and defining users. He provides a simple process that can be conducted within approximately an hour with the participation of the complete team.
- 6. It has significant advantages to pay attention to user determination. Both the direct and the indirect results add, in our opinion, so much value that we decided to conduct ‘User Role Modeling’ in the proposal stage, by default.
- 7. The advantages Flickr user Parker Knight
- 8. Because every team member is allowed to give unlimited input, a large variety of possible users will be the initial outcome.
- 9. Because the complete team participates in the exercise, they get a better impression of what the application could offer in terms of functionality.
- 10. The result Flickr user Infusionsoft
- 11. Aside from being able to create a user structure including read, write and delete rights, the insight in the required functionality has increased.
- 12. This allows for a better transformation from an initial project description into Stories and presenting these Stories in the right order.
- 13. In our proposals, we try to represent the result of this exercise. It obviously means our proposals hold a description of the users as we see them.
- 14. But the result is also visible in the Stories that better reflect the goal of the application, because the team thought of the users and their needs.
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- 16. Maxcode Deliver your next finance or ehealth application. Maxcode is an IT service company building tailor made applications for the European market. We focus on financial and healthcare industries. Maxcode is located in The Netherlands with offices in Romania, and the Republic of Moldova. We are a modern company and a reliable partner for our customers and employees. Koninginnegracht 19 2514 AB Den Haag / The Hague The Netherlands info@maxcode.net
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