The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention

Using Scenario Voting to Help Prevent Defects

Scenario voting prevents defects by helping the product team assess customer requirements, needs, and wants early in the product development cycle. The team can use the scenario voting process to monitor progress toward achieving customer satisfaction throughout the product cycle. By allowing end users to participate in the development of the software application in this way throughout the entire development process, the product team can more easily understand and track the requirements that must be met to ship the product.

Closely monitoring customer requirements helps prevent the wrong features from being built or the wrong designs from being implemented. By getting early customer feedback, the ...