Prioritizing Use Cases

Name: Prioritizing Use Cases
Type: Principles
Status: final
Version 2007-08-23
Gist: using a smart way of finding out the use cases to start with
Note: You are not supposed to use all principles at once. Focus on 1-3 principles. Discuss with your sponsor, which principles you should use. Proposal: use 2 principles to find the initial order. Use a third principle to move use cases forth and back in this order.
Note: You may want to replace 'use case' with 'feature'.

P1: a key stakeholder is an actor to the use case
P2: the actor has been determined as 'primary'
P3: the use case's development is particularly risky or it's attainability is uncertain (due to technical or organizational issues, for example)
P4: it is a use cases within a core business process
P5: the use cases yields high business value
P6: the use cases yields high ratio of business value to costs
P7: there is a business related dependency to another use case wich uses the business results of the first
P8: the use case is part of a business process and it makes sense - from a business point of view - to first complete all use cases for this process
P9: the team can gain knowledge (about the domain, the project, the product) from implementing a use case