Brian Marick a consultant, teacher and writer on using examples to drive agile projects has started to write a book on example-driven development called “Driving Projects with Examples: a Handbook for Agile Teams”. He has written a draft copy of the first two chapters of his book and posted them online.
If you are interested in reading an example of how a typical iteration of an agile project would look like I recommend you read the first chapter of his draft to give the reader an idea of how agile projects go down and where the concept of examples fit into the iteration.
In chapter two he explains the concept of examples to the reader and explains the key points from the example in the first chapter.
Since both chapters are fairly short and a quick read I recommend you read them even if you are not into agile methodologies because examples is a concept you can implement within any process to help you better gather requirements and make sure that both you and your client are on the same page.
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