Concepts versus tasks
Concepts (nouns)
- Ideas that are fundamental to the product
- Ideas that tasks act on
- Word processor: file; template
- Programming language: variable; program
Tasks (verbs)
- More than one task is associated with a particular concept
- Word processor: opening/saving/converting a file; creating/saving a template
- Programming language: declaring/assigning a value to a variable; compiling/writing/linking a program