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perfect sense to engage with them throughout the life cycle.
But keep in mind that in such cases, the crowd is a very select
handpicked crowd with whom you may sign a nondisclosure
agreement (NDA) to ensure your product’s intellectual prop-
erty (IP) is secure. Taking the example of Microsoft again, it
has a very active SME community that often represents end
users in providing ongoing feedback to its products, such as
Visual Studio, Share Point, etc. is is a community of crowd
testers that actively engages in various stages of the develop-
ment cycle, often bound by an NDA, getting to see the prod