Peopleware Papers: Notes on the Human Side of Software, The

Chapter 46. Useful Cases

As if a nascent Hollywood script writer were hidden within every systems analyst and software designer, almost everyone nowadays seems to be turning into a scenarist. Variants on scenario-based design are springing up as fast as academics with time on their hands and consultants with flagging practices can crank out another article or compile and peddle another anthology. Every major object-oriented methodology, right down to the latest and most unified, has embraced scenarios or use cases or some other aptly or ineptly named sequential task model. Articles have been written, books have been printed, columns have been penned, classes have been taught, and discussions have been led until most professionals in the field ...