DSS Services for Clients
Reviews of the Product Delivered vs Your Requirements
Product reviews are absolutely essential to ensuring a high-quality, fully-functional web or database product
and to realizing the best ROI on your investment.
Why Are Product Reviews Necessary?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the reality is that the product initially delivered by your developer is likely not to fully comply with your requirements.
It ain't right, but a letter-perfect initial product is far more the exception than the rule.
Actually, multiple reviews of the product delivered versus your requirements are often a part of the process.
That said, very seasoned and professional developers are at times the exception to this rule. They realize that burdening their clients with variance reviews generally results in unhappy clients, so they put their initial product through their own requirements-variance review before they release it.
Most developers, however, don't have the expertise and resources on staff to do this kind of detailed product-vs-requirements review. By default, therefore, the client winds up inheriting this burden.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the reality is that the product initially delivered by your developer is likely not to fully comply with your requirements.
It ain't right, but a letter-perfect initial product is far more the exception than the rule.
Actually, multiple reviews of the product delivered versus your requirements are often a part of the process.
That said, very seasoned and professional developers are at times the exception to this rule. They realize that burdening their clients with variance reviews generally results in unhappy clients, so they put their initial product through their own requirements-variance review before they release it.
Most developers, however, don't have the expertise and resources on staff to do this kind of detailed product-vs-requirements review. By default, therefore, the client winds up inheriting this burden.
Where Does That Leave You, the Client?
In a tough spot, for sure. You're in a position where you either accept the product as is (despite its likely requirements inconsistencies) or take on the review yourselves.
Given the choice, I highly advise that you do the latter -- product reviews are absolutely essential to ensuring a high-quality, fully-functional web or database product and to realizing the best ROI on your investment.
DSS Can Help!
In most cases, small businesses have neither the expertise nor the available resources in house to perform time-consuming product reviews. If that is true for your company, call in DSS to perform these reviews for you.
DSS prides itself on performing product-vs-requirements reviews exceptionally well. A nitpicker by nature, I am not prone to missing errors in language, format, or function. No doubt the developers I've crossed paths with in the past will attest to that! Check out my Developer testimonials for confirmation of that claim...
DSS performs product-vs-requirements reviews on the client's behalf or on the developer's. If you're asked by your developer to take on this task and you don't have the necessary resources in house to accomplish it, contact DSS directly or suggest to your developer that they do likewise.
Requirements variances are most efficiently and cost-effectively communicated via DSS documents like the ones below.
Contact me today to discuss how I can help.