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Customer Feedback and Data Collection Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review on the Role and Impact of Feedback in Software Product Development
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Computer Science and Media Technology (DVMT).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4908-2708
2016 (English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Background: Customer feedback is critical for successful product development. Software companies continuously collect it in order to become more data-driven. By understanding how these feedback data are collected, companies’ ability to accumulate and synthesize the learnings, and correctly prioritize product development decisions increases. Objective: The purpose of this study is to (1) provide an overview of the sources and feedback collection techniques, (2) demonstrate the impact that customer and product data have on product development, and (3) provide the open research challenges on this topic. Method: We performed a systematic literature review of customer feedback and data collection techniques, analyzing 71 papers on the subject taken from a gross collection of 1298.  Results: We (1) identify the different customer feedback techniques and sources where these data originate and summarize them in the “Customer Feedback Model”. Next, we show the (2) impact that the customer feedback has on the overall development process. Finally, we (3) conclude with future research challenges. Conclusions: Our research reveals a compelling set of feedback data collection techniques that can be used throughout the development stages of software products. The identified challenges, however, indicate that the use of feedback today is fragmented and with limited tool support. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016.
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-66353OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-66353DiVA, id: diva2:1845074
Available from: 2024-03-16 Created: 2024-03-16 Last updated: 2024-04-04Bibliographically approved
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1. Developing the right features: the role and impact of customer and product data in software product development
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Developing the right features: the role and impact of customer and product data in software product development
2016 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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Software product development companies are increasingly striving to become data-driven. The access to customer feedback and product data has been, with products increasingly becoming connected to the Internet, demonetized. Systematically collecting the feedback and efficiently using it in product development, however, are challenges that large-scale software development companies face today when being faced by large amounts of available data. In this thesis, we explore the collection, use and impact of customer feedback on software product development. We base our work on a 2-year longitudinal multiple-case study research with case companies in the software-intensive domain, and complement it with a systematic review of the literature. In our work, we identify and confirm that large-software companies today collect vast amounts of feedback data, however, struggle to effectively use it. And due to this situation, there is a risk of prioritizing the development of features that may not deliver value to customers. Our contribution to this problem is threefold. First, we present a comprehensive and systematic review of activities and techniques used to collect customer feedback and product data in software product development. Next, we show that the impact of customer feedback evolves over time, but due to the lack of sharing of the collected data, companies do not fully benefit from this feedback. Finally, we provide an improvement framework for practitioners and researchers to use the collected feedback data in order to differentiate between different feature types and to model feature value during the lifecycle. With our contributions, we aim to bring software companies one step closer to data-driven decision making in software product development.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö university, Faculty of Technology and Society, 2016. p. 243
Series
Studies in Computer Science ; 3
Keywords
customer feedback, data-driven development, feature value, feature differentiation
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7794 (URN)21268 (Local ID)978-91-7104-736-6 (ISBN)978-91-7104-737-3 (ISBN)21268 (Archive number)21268 (OAI)
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2016-11-11, Niagara, NI:B0E07, Malmö, 13:15 (English)
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Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2024-04-04Bibliographically approved

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