How is UAT performed?

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thinkingUser acceptance Test (UAT) is a testing performed by the Client to ensure the system is completed as in the previous agreed requirement. This test occurs in the final phase of development, before launching the system to the Production environment.
Client, in great responsibility as the last guard of a production system, usually is not an IT expert. How are they going to perform a UAT? Here are some tips which can help.

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Visualize ideas – Storytelling

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Storytelling: put audience in the experience and feel the emotion along the story.

storytelling

storytelling for engagement

Besides useful features, a good product also needs to fit user’s emotional need. When you look carefully at the brands of products you meet everyday, they all give you different sense of feelings, such as what feeling do you have when you think about Google and Microsoft, and what about McDonald’s or Coca Cola. The brand can make you feel it’s joyful, it’s precious, or professional. It’s not just about the feature, like bag is durable, or the shoes are comfortable. The feeling of the audience actually plays an important role.
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Visualize ideas – Visualization with drawings

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Visualization is as simple as drawing a picture, taking a photo, making a map…

visualization by drawing

When you are saying to your boss or teammates that you are making a product, it’s a must that you prepare a presentation and guide audiences to your ideal product. Presentation is the visualization. You could draw as simple as colours, Symbols, lines, and more detailed as videos, diagrams, photos when you talk. You don’t want them to imagine in their way which may be on a different track. It’s easier to draw agreement when people have something to see and can help them visualize your thoughts.

IT projects use wireframes or prototypes for presentation.
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Visualize ideas – Journey Mapping

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Every great idea comes with great planning and lots of experiments. There is a lot of models guiding product planners to build their ideal product. But there is one difficulty that they always meet, and that is the different expectation stakeholders, system engineers and other parties involved.

Managing Expectations

Visualize ideas and align them together. Here I am going to talk about a few visualization tools to help you manage your brilliant idea and keep this idea on the right track.

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Business Analyst vs System Analyst vs Product Manager vs Project Manager

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Business Analyst vs System Analyst vs Product Manager vs Project Manager

In most IT projects, people find it hard to talk to the IT people. Although asking IT-related questions, they say that’s not their job. How come?
That’s because they are talking to the wrong person! Complicated projects like IT projects needs various positions to perform different and specific duties. And the worse thing for most people, is that their titles don’t seems to be differentiable. Here are some common titles and their job duty to make sure you can go to the right person when you have questions.

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