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From Voices to Results - Voice of Customer Questions, Tools and Analysis

By : Robert Coppenhaver
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From Voices to Results - Voice of Customer Questions, Tools and Analysis

By: Robert Coppenhaver

Overview of this book

Voice of Customer (VoC) is one of the most popular forms of market research that combines both quantitative and qualitative methods. This book is about developing a deeper knowledge of your customers and understanding their articulated and unarticulated needs. Doing so requires engaging with customers in a meaningful and substantive way – something that is becoming more and more important with the rise of the increasingly connected world. This book gives you a framework to understand what products and features your customers need, or will need in the future. It provides the tools to conduct a VoC program and suggests how to take the customer input and turn it into successful products. This book also explains how to position and price your products in the market, and demonstrates ROI to the management team to get your product development funded. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of the relevant stages of a VoC project. It will show you how to devise an effective plan, direct the project to their objectives, and then how to collect the voice of the customer, with examples and templates for interviewing and surveying them.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
From Voices to Results – Voice of Customer Questions, Tools, and Analysis
Credits
About the Author
Preface
Epilogue

From voices to product requirements – characteristics


Whether you are writing functional requirements, non-functional requirements, business requirements, or constraints, your requirements must meet certain characteristics to be beneficial to an organization. The characteristics of good requirements are:

  • Attainable

  • Valuable

  • Concise

  • Design free

  • Complete

  • Clear, consistent, and unambiguous

  • Verifiable

  • Traceable

  • Measurable

  • Atomic

  • Prioritized

Attainable

I have always been a believer in pushing the development team to the very edge of their capabilities, resulting in products they did not even believe they could create. However, there is a fine line between pushing the team to the limits of their abilities and asking for the impossible, or for something the organization is not able to support with the right resources. The result will be a frustrated development team and friction between the development team and the marketing/business team.

Valuable

While this is obvious, it is also worth emphasizing that any...