The Philippe Back Report

Exemples

Elio Di Rupo: http://www.cumuleo.be/mandataire/11412-elio-di-rupo.php
Bart De Wever: http://www.cumuleo.be/mandataire/11423-bart-de-wever.php
Paul Magnette: http://www.cumuleo.be/mandataire/11386-paul-magnette.php

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The people at http://www.ivarjacobson.com have released an ebook on what they call the Use Case 2.0 The Definitive Guide.

You can pick a copy. And also look at a presentation that may put some more context around it.

They’ll ask you to fill in all kinds of fields…

It merges:

• Use Cases
• Stories
• Kanban
• Agile
• Backlog based work organization

It is a workable system IMHO.

There is a use case tracker described in there.

Save yourself some time by taking my little Excel version.

Sample Script to do it (using the Execute undocumented op)

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option explicit
 
!INC Local Scripts.EAConstants-VBScript
!INC EAScriptLib.VBScript-Logging
 
'
' Script Name: SQL
' Author: Philippe Back
' Purpose: Demo SQL Invocation
' Date: 25/1/2011
'

Function SQLQuery(sql)
Dim sRes
LOGInfo("Query: " & sql)
sRes = Repository.SQLQuery(sql)
LOGInfo("Res: " & sRes)
End Function
 
Function SQLExec(sql)
Dim sRes
LOGInfo("Statement: " & sql)
sRes = Repository.Execute(sql)
LOGInfo("Res: " & sRes)
End Function
 
Sub Main
SQLQuery("SELECT * FROM T_OBJECT WHERE OBJECT_ID=1")
SQLExec("UPDATE T_OBJECT SET NAME='STUFF' WHERE OBJECT_ID=1")
End Sub
 
Main

Yes, how to identify them? Let’s have a shot.

5 key areas

First of all, let’s look at the five key areas of life:

• financial
• intellectual
• physical
• spiritual
• relational

Picture yourself at the center of these 5.

At this very moment in your life, are you financially happy, intellectually happy, physically happy, spiritually happy, relationally happy? Do you want more out of one area?

Pick an area of importance to you.

Write it down. Come on, do it, write it down on a scrap of paper.

A basic question

Now, ask yourself this basic question:

How would I know when I’d reach ‘it’ in that very area?

Yes, how would you know? Because without an indicator, you aren’t gonna get very real on this one.

The more precise you can get on the indicator, the better. Nobody said it couldn’t be qualitative by the way.

And an outcome doesn’t need to be Earth shattering to be a top outcome. Just that it is of enough importance for you to commit to get in motion towards it. For long enough and with enough resolve so that there is a pretty good chance you’ll make it.

So, now turn your attention to the ‘it‘ bit. Now that you have an indicator, it is much easier to define this ‘it‘ more clearly.

Now write down: 

Top outcome in ….. : ……

I’d know I’ll be there when: … is true…

Reality check

Rinse and repeat, until you have your three

Formulation done!