Story lifecycle in a product development organization

Abstract

This poster describes an integrated set of stories and storybased activities that we have used in product development in IBM Software Group's Lotus product organizations. We use five types of stories (stories from the field, concept stories, design-exploration stories, partner-integration stories, and product demonstrations). We describe the "inputs" and "outcomes" of each stage of our developing "story lifecycle," illustrating our method with multiple case studies. © 2004 ACM.