Starting the waterfall

August 10th, 2005

What inspired On-Site? Real Estate Weekly asked me to tell the story of how we came to be. Our first step was to learn:

we studied the steps involved in renting an apartment, and how this workflow differed among companies. Often, software is designed by programmers who have no idea what the end-user actually does on a day-to-day basis.

User-friendly programs are vital for the property management field. In many markets, properties are run by owners with little time to spend on learning new software. Furthermore, employees - particularly at the onsite leasing level - move among jobs and companies quite a bit, so the fact that minimal training is required to use On-Site.com gives new users the ability to be up-and-running quickly.

More on how we built our software to "waterfall" from task to task: Getting to Know the User-friendly Side of Technology.

 
  
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