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• Do you taste your own medicine?

  Our colleague Jason from 37signals had a very interesting blog post lately. His post was elegantly summarized in this sentence: "By building products we want to use, we’re also building products that millions of other small businesses want to use... Posted Mar 12 2008, 09:00 AM by Karine with | with no comments Filed under: software development, product management

• Due dates and release-ready

  Presently, the team at Websystems is in the final stages of getting AceProject 4.5 ready to release. We are testing the new system as much as we can, so we can release as bug-free a system as we can. However, we also know there is a one-month period after... Posted Mar 10 2008, 08:16 AM by Karine with | with no comments Filed under: software development, product management

• Customizing software

  Ever since AceProject has been on the project management software market, we have been receiving request for cutomization. Most organizations will shy away from custom work because they find it too complicated or too time-consuming. However, in the project... Posted Mar 07 2008, 09:00 AM by Karine with | with no comments Filed under: software development, customer service, product management, custom work

• How do you choose which features to include?

  As any software development company will tell you, there are always more features to add to a version than there is time to implement them correctly. Hence, we face a challenge: implement more features with limited functionnality, or implement fewer features... Posted Feb 20 2008, 09:00 AM by Karine with | with no comments Filed under: software development, marketing

• Effort is not always proportional to value

  Sometimes, that new feature that took so much time and effort, that was so complicated to implement, is not important to the client. This can be heartbreaking for developers. I've seen it often: my press release is sent for approval, and the project... Posted Feb 18 2008, 10:56 AM by Karine with | with no comments Filed under: features, software development