Comments on: Crowdsourced Software Development? http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/crowdsourced-software-development/ a blog by Joanna Pineda, CEO, Matrix Group Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:21:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Tim McDonald http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/crowdsourced-software-development/comment-page-1/#comment-2875 Tim McDonald Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:17:10 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=1839#comment-2875 Glad to hear that you are connecting with the community to make your products and services truly meet their needs. I believe that using social and interactive media platforms (i.e. Facebook Fan Pages and even WebEx) to connect with your client-base is critical to the success of your business. Salesforce.com uses their "Ideas" platform to make crowdsourcing an on-going process, taking the community's suggestions into consideration to plan out each of their next feature releases. Starbucks (www.mystarbucksidea.com) and Dell (www.ideastorm.com) have adopted the same process and have had great customer successes as a result (splash sticks and backlit keyboards respectively). Glad to hear that you are connecting with the community to make your products and services truly meet their needs. I believe that using social and interactive media platforms (i.e. Facebook Fan Pages and even WebEx) to connect with your client-base is critical to the success of your business. Salesforce.com uses their “Ideas” platform to make crowdsourcing an on-going process, taking the community’s suggestions into consideration to plan out each of their next feature releases. Starbucks (www.mystarbucksidea.com) and Dell (www.ideastorm.com) have adopted the same process and have had great customer successes as a result (splash sticks and backlit keyboards respectively).

]]> By: David Baxa http://www.thematrixfiles.net/blog/crowdsourced-software-development/comment-page-1/#comment-2874 David Baxa Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:37:36 +0000 http://www.thematrixfiles.net/?p=1839#comment-2874 Joanna, Inpressive way to validate the direction you are taking with software application improvements! Sounds a lot like a new and more efficient twist on configuration control boards which are often used for government systems to control/validate the evolution of critical applications that are in wide use. While the governance piece may not be a component of your take on crowdsourcing, the effective result is nearly the same. Impressive innovation! David Joanna,

Inpressive way to validate the direction you are taking with software application improvements! Sounds a lot like a new and more efficient twist on configuration control boards which are often used for government systems to control/validate the evolution of critical applications that are in wide use. While the governance piece may not be a component of your take on crowdsourcing, the effective result is nearly the same.
Impressive innovation!
David

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