Base120 · Perspective
Role Perspective-Taking
Temporarily inhabit specific roles to understand constraints and priorities
When to use
"Use when you need to understand constraints and priorities that are invisible from your own role. Temporarily inhabit a specific role (user, operator, maintainer, auditor) and reason from within its constraints."
Example
"A product manager inhabits the on-call engineer's role for a week. Discovers that the minor logging gap is a 2 AM crisis every time the service flakes. Returns to product planning with a different priority ordering."
Common misuse
"Role perspective-taking as a thought experiment only. Actually inhabiting the role (shadowing, doing the work) reveals constraints that imagination alone cannot generate."