Overview

The ProductPath Server solution enables software product teams to cost-effectively validate, prioritize and integrate valuable feedback from end-users and customers into key stages of the development cycle. Engaging end-users will ensure requirements hit their mark and the project meets the goals of being delivered on-time and on-budget.

The ProductPath Server solution is a web-based solution that gives your project and product teams the tools to overcome the challenges of acquiring, managing and incorporating end-user feedback into the critical early stages of the software development process. The ProductPath Server creates an online environment for end-users to provide feature ideas or requirements. The software team is able to easily engage users in bi-directional or multi-directional communication. To support prioritization, the software team can choose to utilize two types of priority rankings for end-users: one to assign an index value to a feature idea, evaluated on its own, and the other to assign a value to a feature idea relative to others. This ‘relative prioritization’ is key in making feature trade-off decisions. Lastly, built-in reports allow software teams to easily pull data and immediately take any necessary actions.

Benefits from the ProductPath Server

• Less time gathering end-user feedback on requirements, cut the amount of time you spend on gathering feature ideas and requirements by as much as 80%.
• User self-validation, in the online group environment, feedback from one user can immediately be validated, or invalidated, by the other users.
• Prioritization on two levels: assigning a value to a feature, evaluated on its own, and ‘relative priority’, assigning a value to a feature relative to other features.
• Reduced code re-work. With end-user-validated-and-prioritized requirements, you know your project will meet end-user needs and expectations. It is widely known that code re-work can increase total development cost by as much as 40%.
• Maintained or shortened timeline. With the verified data from end-users, and with the speed that you are able to gather that data, your software team can focus, stay on, or even reduce, the development timeline.
• Development budget control as you reduce code re-work and stay on your development timeline.
• End-user satisfaction as you meet their requirements – this is one of the key criteria for overall project success.