Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach

Chapter 12. Storyboarding

Key Points

• The purpose of storyboarding is to elicit early "Yes, But" reactions.

• Storyboards can be passive, active, or interactive.

• Storyboards identify the players, explain what happens to them, and describe how it happens.

• Make the storyboard sketchy, easy to modify, and unshippable.

• Storyboard early and often on every project with new or innovative content.

Perhaps no elicitation technique has been subject to as many interpretations as has "storyboarding." Nonetheless, most of these interpretations agree that the purpose of storyboarding is to gain an early reaction from the users on the concepts proposed for the application. In so doing, storyboards offer one of the most effective techniques for addressing the "Yes, But" ...