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A sneak peak at AceProject 4.6

We are entering out third and last cycle of development for AceProject 4.6. So far, the agile method has been working well, and we think AceProject 4.6 will benefit greatly from shorter iterative development cycles. Today, I want to show you three really nice improvements we've made to AceProject...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 11-14-2008
Irritants should be your first priority

I tried to print a fax today. In Windows Vista's Picture Viewer. No can do. Vista sees my .tif file as an image, and tries to print is in landscape orientation. There was nothing I could do to change it. This highly aggravated. Vista was getting in the way of getting things done, a big no-no for...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 10-21-2008
Breaking up with a product you love

This week, I had finally had enough. There was no apology that could fix the relationship, no reparations possible. It broke my heart but I had to do it. I broke up with a product I love. Xobni is a great Outlook Add-on that indexes all your email, provides neat metrics (like response times) and had...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 10-09-2008
Why the AceProject development team is going agile

As AceProject grows, it takes longer to put out a new version. There is more to test, the documentation takes longer to be finished, and debugging is a growing monster. Typical of waterfall development methods. Daniel, our president, was tired of this. He wanted us to be able to release versions faster...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 10-07-2008
Easy now or easy later?

It it better to make the tool easy to use the first time, or everytime afterwards? For the newbies, if the use of the tool is not self-evident from the start, you're making their experience difficult. This will cost sales at first. However, if you design the tool to be incredibly efficient to use...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 09-10-2008
The cool tools your never used again

We see them all the time on the web: cool tools. Websites that offer a service that is original, technically advanced, or just fun. If you read a lot of blogs, you probably check out at least one of those cool tools every week. How many of those make the move from cool new tool to tools you use regularly...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 08-27-2008
About herding cats

It's hard enough getting clear deliverables in a project, keeping them that way is just like herding cats. If the project lasts long enough, you can bet the deliverables for the project will be modified. Here are 3 common things that will affect the deliverables: Adding a feature to the product Changing...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 08-08-2008
Confusion: interface design's enemy

Interface design is an intriguing and widely diverse world. There are as many ways to make a text box as there are designers on the planet. I like getting to a site and seeing a new, original way to design a web site's navigation. However, I cannot stand interfaces that confuse me. Here are the two...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 08-04-2008
Off-the-shelf or custom-made?

When you are shopping for a product, do you like that it's available off the shelf, requires very little configuration, and works right away? Or do you like to tinker with the product until it works just right ? At Websystems, while most of our customer are using AceProject standard, we see a growing...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 06-02-2008
AceProject is skin-deep, and we like that!

AceProject 4.5 introduced more flexibility for our clients to brand their project management system to fit their corporate image. Before AceProject 4.5, our clients could upload their own logo to replace AceProject's, and put their own company name in place of AceProject in the page title. Now, with...

Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 05-21-2008

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