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How to Estimate User Stories?
Story estimating is definitely not a easy task. But Visual Paradigm has a very useful feature to help your team on this, called Affinity Estimation Technique.
Affinity Estimate
- Estimate use stories in relative terms.
- Keep estimates manageable.
- Deal with spikes in early stage.
Visual Paradigm’s Affinity Table automate the affinity estimating process for you and at the time deal with the above important issues.
Why Visual Paradigm Affinity Table for User Stories Estimation?
- streamlining the entire estimating process for your team
- seamlessly integrated with story map and product backlog
- Automatic calculate story point and days at the same time
- provide traditional column based estimation or advanced matrix based estimation in switchable dual modes
- help you to identify spikes and to be handled them in early stage
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How Many STEPS Wizards Available So Far? And Available in What Edition?
- There are five STEPS Wizards available in Visual Paradigm at the moment. There will be more wizards to be made available in the Future.
- The criteria of a STEPS Wizard to be made available in what Edition(s) based the diagram type(s) used in that wizard is/are also the default diagram type(s) available in the edition(s)
- For example: ArchiMate Diagram is only available in the Enterprise Edition, so if the STEPS Wizard includes the ArchiMate diagram, then it will only be available in Enterprise Edition
STEPS Wizard | Objectives | Compatible Editions |
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Use Case 2.0 |
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Enterprise / Professional |
Developing MVC Sequence Diagrams from CRUD Model |
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Enterprise / Professional
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Develop CRUD Chart from DFD |
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Enterprise / Professional / Standard |
Competitive Analysis with Radar Chart |
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Enterprise / Professional
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Capability Maturity Assessment |
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Enterprise |
Capability-Based Transformation Planning |
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Enterprise |
Use Case 2.0 For Agile Development
Visual Paradigm introduces STEPS – an fully automated process for agile development.
So what is STEPS anyway?
Seamless Techniques Expressed in Prescribed Steps (STEPS) is a powerful and groundbreaking feature for software development. Like a recipe that tells you how to cook a meal, STEPS are recipes that lead you through a series of well-defined steps for conducting a particular (reusable) analysis or modeling pattern for certain aspect of your development process. Your team can reuse or choose the appropriate Wizard in your project from the default set provided by Visual Paradigm.
Seamless transformation of data
Your work will be transformed automatically from one step to another. All the transformation is done behind-the-scene. You will get accurate result without any extra configuration and re-work.
Learn through STEPS
All the steps have instructions documented. The instructions do not just guide you through the completion of step but also provides you with tips and additional material in learning about the intent and rationale behind what you are doing.
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Distinguish between the layers in ArchiMate using Notational Cues
In addition to the colors, other notational cues can be used to distinguish between the layers of the framework in ArchiMate. A letter ‘M’, ‘S’, ‘B’, ‘A’, ‘T’, ‘P’, or ‘I’ in the top-left corner of an element can be used to denote a Motivation, Strategy, Business, Application, Technology, Physical, or Implementation & Migration element, respectively.
An example of this notation is depicted in Example below:
Shape Convention in ArchiMate
The standard notation also uses a convention with the shape of the corners of its symbols for different element types, as follows:
• Square corners are used to denote structure elements.
• Round corners are used to denote behavior elements.
• Diagonal corners are used to denote motivation elements.
Related Resources
https://archimate.visual-paradigm.com/
Why use different colors in ArchiMate? What does it means?
In many of the example models presented in the ArchiMate Specification, colors are used to distinguish between the layers and extension.