Imagine if everyone was reporting the same bug (which happens ... a lot)?

The S Series Beta Programme with about 40 participants reported 334 bugs, of which 30 were found to be valid and unique. The Programme Coordinator filtered out all the junk, and the development team got to see just the valid reports - which were all subsequently fixed.

SB Beta Programme Coordinators work full time to manage two to three simultaneous programmes, with probably no more than a couple of hundred participants in total. This is with Beta quality software which has already been through a QA alpha regression.

Rob