Identifying the Problems Addressed by the User Stories

Hi all,

I think it would be beneficial for the final deliverables of the TFs
if we identify the underlying *higher level* problem(s) that each of
the stories convey and need to be addressed. So, for example, based on
the stories related to privacy on the wiki [1], I believe the
following would be some suitable "privacy problem categories" :

A. Access Control:
Stories related to improper access, users not thinking much about the
repercussions of not putting proper access control to their online
social data, etc.

B. Data Usage:
Stories related to personally identifiable information leaking out
from the user's social network. Once a user publishes some data about
herself, or her family or friends, can somebody else use it? under
what conditions?

C. Trust:
Can we really trust people to be who they say they are on social
networks? (very much related to the identity-based user stories in the
wiki). Things like age verification which needs to rely on a third
party should also be considered.

If it makes sense to categorize user stories like this, I propose that
we include a new section titled "Problem" or "Problem Category" (or
any other suitable name) in the user story template at [2]. The
alternative is to restructure the wiki based on these categories. But
that could be problematic if a particular user story has more than one
category.

I wonder whether a similar approach would work for the use cases in
Portability and Context TFs?

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserStories#Privacy_and_Context
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/UserStories#Template

-- 
Oshani

Received on Friday, 10 July 2009 00:57:44 UTC