While working on our next set of enhancements to ProtoShare, we developed the following flowchart:

Michael Hawley of Mad*Pow recently wrote an article on UXMatters that hits close to the office here at ProtoShare: Getting the Right Stakeholder Feedback at the Right Time.

(A follow-up to Part I: Why Agile?)

Part I: Why Agile?

ProtoShare was originally conceived of to help the development team here at Site9 to better define and scope our own contract projects. We were literally our own first customer, which meant that the product feedback loop was very short and early versions of ProtoShare evolved somewhat organically, adding features as we realized what we needed. When we eventually released the tool to the public, we quickly discovered that most of our customers also had unique views of how prototyping fit into their organizations’ software development lifecycles. Today, nearly three years later, ProtoShare supports a huge variety of use cases and we have come to depend almost exclusively on customer feedback to drive the product forward.