3 Features, Scenarios, and Stories
Some software products are inspired. The developers of these products have a vision of the software that they want to create. They don’t have a product manager, they don’t do user surveys, they don’t collect and document requirements or model how users will interact with the system. They simply get on with developing a prototype system. Some of the most successful software products, such as Facebook, started like this.
However, the vast majority of software products that are solely based on a developer’s inspiration are commercial failures. These products either don’t meet a real user need or don’t fit with the ways in which users really work. Inspiration is important but most successful products are based ...
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