Roles, boundaries, and Conway's Law in Use Case Design

    Starting with role, let me ask you a question. If you were doing this by yourself for the first time, would you have labeled Visitor or Member as User? I know I would have.

    So why didn't we?

    Why didn't we just label User as the primary actor?

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    It's because role dictates responsibility.

    Role dictates responsibility

    While we could call everyone a User, that could be unproductive to the ubiquitous language…

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