The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention

Conclusion

Scenario voting is a fairly straightforward way to improve software development and prevent early defects by getting feedback from users. The feedback program should be designed carefully, ensuring that the voting population is well understood and that the scenarios they are asked to try are clearly defined and functional. This feedback can provide tremendous insight to the product team, often before the software is even written. Using the “Wisdom of Crowds” and the Law of Large Numbers enables the product development team to employ scenario voting as an effective technique to prevent defects from reaching customers.