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The Enterprise Prototyping Solution

As part of a large enterprise team, you have many stakeholders involved in the development of websites and web applications. From colleagues to customers (both internal and external), involving the right people at the right time is no easy task. Enter ProtoShare.

ProtoShare is a collaborative solution. The more people you have involved in a project, the bigger the benefit received with ProtoShare as part of your process. It enables agencies and e-commerce teams to collaborate on digital development in real time - prior to coding - helping you avoid needless rework and minimize misunderstandings among colleagues and clients on design decisions.

Whether you follow an Agile or a more traditional software development methodology, by using ProtoShare you can avoid the mistakes that derail and delay software development.

The Top 6 Reasons Projects are Challenged and How ProtoShare Fixes Them

According to IEEE, a group of managers and employees cited a wide range of issues when asked why their projects didn't meet their original goals. The six most-named reasons were:

  • Problem: Lack of user involvement

    Solution: Increase buy-in by inviting stakeholders to the process early

    ProtoShare creates a simple user experience where executives, end users, UX professionals, designers and developers can actively engage with interactive prototypes. Timely access to stakeholders is difficult, but ProtoShare's online collaboration virtually puts everyone in the same room, helping you better manage the creative process. Your team will reduce dependence on inefficient and infrequent face-to-face meetings while optimizing results..

  • Problem: Poor requirements

    Solution: Ensure requirements are complete & correct

    Visualization radically improves requirements. People need to see things before they can truly understand them. By adding interactive prototypes and visualizations in ProtoShare, requirements are validated, new requirements are uncovered, and development can move forward with reduced ambiguity, and true agreement between key stakeholders.

  • Problem: Unrealistic schedules

    Solution: Gain a clear scope of the project to better estimate deployment

    Estimating development time is difficult. When requirements are illustrated with high-fidelity prototypes, engineering estimates are more accurate. Whether you're packaging a sprint, or scheduling large work units, ProtoShare will help you schedule the work more accurately.

  • Problem: Lack of change management

    Solution: Prevent scope creep & late-stage changes by prototyping

    Early iterations on prototypes will reduce the stress on whatever change management system you employ. Because ProtoShare allows for rapid, multiple, and even parallel iterations, your team can be more innovative and creative before coding begins. In addition, ProtoShare helps teams uncover big changes early in the prototyping phase. This eliminates late-stage rework and any post-construction changes simply become micro refinements.

  • Problem: Lack of testing

    Solution: Test requirements prior to development

    ProtoShare massively reduces rework by allowing baseline user-experience testing upfront. When testing uncovers misunderstanding of incorrect or incomplete requirements, the resulting rework can be complex, time consuming and costly. By allowing stakeholders to test a prototype, you can eliminate most of the rework caused by this kind of miscommunication.

  • Problem: Inflexible, bloated processes

    Solution: Work in iterative sprints to streamline your process

    ProtoShare gives your team a lightweight, flexible and streamlined process to uncover more complete project requirements before a line of code is written. ProtoShare supports low, medium and high-fidelity prototypes, clickable comps, and live views for collaborating on, among many other uses [Link to 'ways to use protoshare' stuff] . A more Agile, iterative design process allows your team to explore more creative ideas to build optimal solutions. And rapid prototype refinement gets your team real stakeholder buy-in without the headaches of reworking a final product.