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User acceptance Test (UAT) is a testing performed by the Client to ensure the system is completed as in the previous agreed requirement. This test occurs in the final phase of development, before launching the system to the Production environment.
Client, in great responsibility as the last guard of a production system, usually is not an IT expert. How are they going to perform a UAT? Here are some tips which can help.
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Software testing is the front door and also the back door in a software development process.
Why? It first happens when users try to develop their user requirement. They would surely need to understand the criteria of accepting a software in the first place, i.e. how could they consider if a software is ready to use?
On the other hand as a developer, besides meeting the user requirement, there is also numerous tests such as load test, security test, performance test to prove the software is ready for production. So software testing techniques could act as the back door of the development process right before the product launch. Here we talk the main concepts of software testing.
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Industrial standards are useful nowadays, providing a best practices to follow and also a common language to communicate. In the IT industrial, the ISO:27000 family is a famous standard about information security management systems.
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Mind Mapping: Looking for patterns and insights in the large quantity of data you’ve collected during your exploration.
After your idea is generated, the next action is to concrete it with mind mapping by:
1. Organizing
2. Combining
A computer-drawn mind map
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Storytelling: put audience in the experience and feel the emotion along the story.
storytelling for engagement
Besides useful features, a good product also needs to fit user’s emotional need. When you look carefully at the brands of products you meet everyday, they all give you different sense of feelings, such as what feeling do you have when you think about Google and Microsoft, and what about McDonald’s or Coca Cola. The brand can make you feel it’s joyful, it’s precious, or professional. It’s not just about the feature, like bag is durable, or the shoes are comfortable. The feeling of the audience actually plays an important role.
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Visualization is as simple as drawing a picture, taking a photo, making a map…
visualization by drawing
When you are saying to your boss or teammates that you are making a product, it’s a must that you prepare a presentation and guide audiences to your ideal product. Presentation is the visualization. You could draw as simple as colours, Symbols, lines, and more detailed as videos, diagrams, photos when you talk. You don’t want them to imagine in their way which may be on a different track. It’s easier to draw agreement when people have something to see and can help them visualize your thoughts.
IT projects use wireframes or prototypes for presentation.
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Every great idea comes with great planning and lots of experiments. There is a lot of models guiding product planners to build their ideal product. But there is one difficulty that they always meet, and that is the different expectation stakeholders, system engineers and other parties involved.
Managing Expectations
Visualize ideas and align them together. Here I am going to talk about a few visualization tools to help you manage your brilliant idea and keep this idea on the right track.
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Business Analyst vs System Analyst vs Product Manager vs Project Manager
In most IT projects, people find it hard to talk to the IT people. Although asking IT-related questions, they say that’s not their job. How come?
That’s because they are talking to the wrong person! Complicated projects like IT projects needs various positions to perform different and specific duties. And the worse thing for most people, is that their titles don’t seems to be differentiable. Here are some common titles and their job duty to make sure you can go to the right person when you have questions.
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For managing an IT project, there is a well-known standard to software development cycle. Below chart is taken from the HK OGCIO.
Software Life Cycle Model from HK OGCIO
But to most people, this chart is not understandable and the stages are confusing.