Comments on: Features Do Not Exist (Only Benefits)

By: Fervent Coder

Fervent Coder — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:56:01 +0000

Well said! Brilliant.

Or perhaps Paula Bean Brillant? ;D

By: Jurgen Appelo

Jurgen Appelo — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:07:13 +0000

Max, I almost forgot, my reply to this post is here…

http://www.noop.nl/2008/07/oh-.....tards.html

By: Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for June 25, 2008

Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for June 25, 2008 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:03:53 +0000

[...] Features Do Not Exist (Only Benefits) – Max Pool Happy to see Max continue his video messages. This time a good example of why we ‘ need to quit thinking and speaking in terms of features, and start talking to our clients in terms of the benefits that they will gain ‘ [...]

By: Justin Deltener

Justin Deltener — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:05:34 +0000

LOL I’m glad to see I’m not the only one that finds small irritants in society that hint to large scale fundamental issues. I would of thought the exact same thing…60% lighter…well whoopty doo..what the @#$$ does that mean? enjoyed the post :)

By: Dew Drop - June 25, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Dew Drop - June 25, 2008 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:35:51 +0000

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By: Max Pool

Max Pool — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:33:37 +0000

@Scott,

I understand why you would write specs to describe an experience, but is there a fine difference between application “behavior” and user “experience” besides from which direction you are viewing?

From one point of view they seem to be the same thing, from another potentially different…

By: Scott Bellware

Scott Bellware — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:04:30 +0000

Nicely done.

In BDD, I tend refer “benefit” as “experience”. When I write executable specs, I write them to describe the experience rather than the implementation.

I’m reticent to conclude that I’m delivering benefit at the time I’m writing specs. We believe or suspect that there’s benefit, but we only really know this at a later time.

Similarly, I don’t refer to a user story template as “As a , I want to so that “. My preferred template is “As a , I want to so that “. There may or may not be business value involved. That often remains to be seen as well.