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In this post, we’ll dig deeper into use cases vs.

If you’re in agile software development, chances are you’re more familiar with utilizing user stories. We’ll dig deeper into both of these processes below. Creating detailed use cases is a much more in-depth process that’s designed to help teams understand how a user or customer interacts with a system. They are the beginning of a larger process that describes a customer's actions as they use or interact with your product. User stories are simple, short descriptions from the customer’s perspective. While both use cases and user stories help teams plan work and determine what’s needed to complete work, the format for how they are used is quite different. They may sound similar in name, but they are very different and often used in completely different industries. The notable quote from Alistair Cockburn, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, reads, “A user story is to a use case as a gazelle is to a gazebo.” This sheds light on the immense differences between use cases vs.