Thursday, June 7, 2007

So simple a child could do it!

ChildecCayla is 11 years old.



Like many her age, she spent a portion of her weekend playing on her computer. She had new software and wanted to try it out. Game related? No. Internet related? Not exactly. Her new software is called EnvisionConnect—and she was changing the owners of facilities in the county where she lives.



Actually, Cayla's mother, Serenity, is a member of Decade Software's Quality Assurance Team. Her job is to test our software—including claims that EnvisionConnect is so intuitive that a caveman—or child in this case—could use it.



Serenity reported:

"My daughter sat down with no direction other than to: read the instructions, make herself an owner, and go shopping for facilities. (She loved pretending that she could own something!) She’s very intelligent, but she had no prior training in the field or with the product and had never before seen EnvisionConnect or the Change Facility Ownership workflow—but Cayla was able to create an owner and transfer a facility in under 11 minutes."

It's nice to know that the requirements team's tedious study of usability—and those many, long customer brainstorming sessions—really paid off for everyone. Thanks, Team!



...And Cayla—if you're reading this—thank you for helping out. Who knows? Maybe someday you really will own a few of those facilities.



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