Customer feedback and data collection techniques in software R&D: A literature review
Paper in proceeding, 2015

In many companies, product management struggles in getting accurate customer feedback. Often, validation and confirmation of functionality with customers takes place only after the product has been deployed, and there are no mechanisms that help product managers to continuously learn from customers. Although there are techniques available for collecting customer feedback, these are typically not applied as part of a continuous feedback loop. As a result, the selection and prioritization of features becomes far from optimal, and product deviates from what the customers need. In this paper, we present a literature review of currently recognized techniques for collecting customer feedback. We develop a model in which we categorize the techniques according to their characteristics. The purpose of this literature review is to provide an overview of current software engineering research in this area and to better understand the different techniques that are used for collecting customer feedback.

Customer feedback

Data collection

Quantitative data

The ‘open loop’ problem

Qualitative feedback

Author

A. Fabijan

Malmö university

H. Holmström

Malmö university

Jan Bosch

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

1865-1348 (ISSN) 18651356 (eISSN)

Vol. 210 139-153
978-3-319-19592-6 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

Computer Science

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-19593-3_12

ISBN

978-3-319-19592-6

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