I was wondering what the difference between User Stories and Use Cases was and more importantly whether they were mutually exclusive or could be combined - my experience of Scrum so far seems to lean firmly toward the former.
However, I was distracted from my brief search when I came across Why I still use use cases written by Alistair Cockburn the author of Writing Effective Use Cases. In this article he’s made some interesting observations based on experience visiting companies and even goes as far as stating “naïve use of user stories and backlog items is causing very real, very expensive damage to companies”.
I’m blogging this because I’m interested in hearing other viewpoints and experiences from those who have worked with user stories as I’m mindful that this particular article could invoke hugely disparate opinions.