Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach

Chapter 14. Role Playing

Key Points

• Role playing allows the development team to experience the user's world from the user's perspective.

• A scripted walkthrough may replace role playing in some situations, with the script becoming a live storyboard.

• Class-Responsibility-Collaboration (CRC) cards, often used in object-oriented analysis, are a derivative of role playing.

So far in Team Skill 2, we have discussed a variety of techniques to understand the needs of the stakeholder with respect to a new system we are building. We've talked one-on-one about It (interviewing); we've discussed It in a group format (workshops); we've presented our ideas about It (storyboard); and we've thought about how actors interact with It (use cases). These are all good ...