Use case – presenting use cases in Azure DevOps

This section clarifies the concepts outlined in the previous section with the practical example of WWTravelClub. Considering the scenario described in Chapter 1, Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture, we decided to define three Epic work items, as follows:

Figure 3.23: User case Epics

The creation of these work items is quite simple:

1. Inside each work item, we link the different types of work items, as you can see in Figure 3.24.
2. It is really important to know that the connections between work items are really useful during software development. Hence, as a software architect, you have to provide this knowledge to your team and, more than that, you have to incentivize them to make these connections:

   

   Figure 3.24: Defining a link

3. As soon as you create a Feature work item, you will be able to connect it to several Product Backlog work items that detail its specifications...