Dear Students, during yesterday's lecture …
Dear Students, during yesterday's lecture (i.e., lecture 3 on agile processes) we had a question/answer session about homework 1. During this session I gave a hint about my own solution of Task 2. It is as follows: I have a total of 4 top-level activities and 3 top-level artifacts (products) which are arranged as follows:
act1 -> prod1 <-> act2 -> prod2 -> act3 -> prod3 -> act 4
Note that some activities and some products have sub-activities and sub-products in my solution. Also, I have roles attached to all activities and to some activities I have attached methods/techniques/tools.
For those students who attended yesterday's lecture: Apologies if I confused you because I got confused about my own notation when I drew the figure on the white board. What I meant to draw is exactly what I have written above! Thus, forget whatever you have copied from the white board yesterday.
To avoid that I get confused when reading your solutions, make sure to clearly define all symbols you use in case you decide to use a graphical notation in Task 2.
Final note: Please remember that your solution can be fully correct even if it does not resemble my solution. It is always possible to interpret some elements of a verbal process description in different ways. And even if two persons interpret the verbal process description in exactly the same way, they might still decide to model it differently.