Can Use Cases and User Stories be partners for nimbleness?

Use Cases used to be the most common technique for software behavior specification in the 90s. With the rise of Agile frameworks and methods, it became wrongly perceived as a waterfall approach and user stories have taken over part of what use cases did, but there is still a big hole in product development practices.
Now, Dr. Ivar Jacobson, the creator of use cases, and Dr. Alistair Cockburn, one of the Agile Manifesto authors, are reframing Use Cases to place it back where it belongs. Despite use cases is not a commonly listed technique in Agile practices, its usage has been proven immensely valuable by many practitioners.
Use cases fill a hole that is not covered by any of the other practices such as value stream mapping, customer journey mapping, feature slicing, behavior-driven development, acceptance test-driven design, story maps, user experience design, and design thinking.
In this live podcast, I will chat with Ivar Jacobson to talk about how use cases relate to these other practices, in particular use stories. Even more important, is how use cases can be applied nimbly in organizations that must sense and respond to change quickly and precisely.
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As promised during the episode, here are some useful links:
1. The paper “Use Cases are Essential” was published in ACM Queue Nov 11, 2023, and downloaded almost 12’000 times.
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2. Nov-11-2023 a meetup ‘Use Cases are Essential’ to promote use cases.
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3. Feb-14-2024 The Use Case Foundation, which is supposed to work as a common ground for any use case practice. This is a very important document (base practice) for anyone wanting to write their use case practices and associated training.
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4. Feb-16-2024 Call to Action statement:
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5. On the same day the LinkedIn Group ‘Reframing Use Cases’ was set up. Most members are interested in helping use cases to come back.
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6. March-12-2024 LinkedIn article telling people that we would start setting up initiatives as we said we would do in the Call to Action statement.
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7. March-13-2024 The first initiative, integrating use cases and user stories with Mike Cohn, Ian Spence, and Gunnar Övergaard:
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8. March-26-2024 The second initiative, integrating use cases and BDD/ATDD:
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9. An Introduction to Essence and TeamSpace
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10. More about Nimble at The Brazilian BA
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