Use Case

The second element of the SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) is Continuous Integration (CI). This is where top priority features for a program increment get decomposed into stories. I recommend the use of Use Case for feature decomposition (into stories), design, and testing. Use Case Driven Design, Build, Test: decomposing a feature into pint-sized stories using Use Case comes naturally: it has an Actor and a Use Case (a need). Example: As a family man with a young family, I would need a people-mover van, so that the whole family can go to short trips on weekends. It has an…

Assume that we have an approved initiative, idea, or an epic. What follows next in SAFe' Continuous Delivery Pipeline is its first element, Continuous Exploration (CE). Use Case Driven Analysis: CE is our opportunity to analyze and flesh out the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as described in the approved idea's Lean Business Case. Features are the artifacts of CE.. together with clearer vision of the product and a roadmap of features -- could be laid out across multiple Program Increments (PI) -- to make the product vision a reality. Use UCM to delimit the system: Use Case Modeling (UCM) is…