Getting feedback from your users
When working on a product, one of the most valuable things you can do is get feedback from your users as to whether the software you have built meets their requirements or not, and their opinions about the software. You will notice that in TFS terminology, the word "stakeholder" is used over "user", representing the diverse sources of feedback that exist. Besides traditional end-users, several additional groups should have their voices heard—including design, QA, and the product owners funding development.
Even if you have a process that defines clear acceptance criteria for requirements, and you have a clear definition of what it means to be done with a piece of work, you still want feedback from these stakeholders to determine whether there are any other points that may have been missed when the requirement was first discussed, or if new ideas have occurred now that they have seen the latest build of the software running.
A normal feedback process involves...
