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We receive suggestions for new features every week. When I do live demos with future clients, they regularly request new features as well. We really like receiving these suggestions. They give us a pulse of the market, of what people are looking for. A year ago people were asking for Salesforce integration...
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Yes, it's finally ready! AceProject server will be upgraded tomorrow night to version 4.7. Here are the release notes . Congratulations to the team for such good work, and I hope you like the new version! Connect with Karine Simard and the AceProject team via Facebook , LinkedIn and Twitter .
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Development is going well for AceProject 4.7 (see what's we've written already here , here and here ). We are finishing phase 2 of development. Eye candy Here is some eye candy for mac users: a brand new skin! Project templates People love AceProject's templates because it makes creating...
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Seth Godin has a very insightful post about ignoring your critics . I agree with him. From a sales standpoint, critics are everywhere. People who are shopping for project management software often have a very definite set of features they would like to see in their tool. And when they are faced with...
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Here's a very interesting (and inspirational post) from Rands in Repose . The post uses the building of the Brooklyn bridge as a metaphor for breakthroughs. In the beginning of the article, he explains the intentions of the ferry operators in New York City before the bridges were built: they didn't...
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I saw this great comic at Stack Overflow this morning, and I though I would share it with you. No matter how much method we want to have in our development process, there is always a part of it that looks (or feels) like the comic above. It's normal. When it's over, it's funny. Some of the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In the project management business, our market is the world. However, so is our competition. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of project management software products on the market. Every week, I find a new competitor. Project management software had become a sea of products. There are desktop software...
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It's finally online: you can use AceProject 4.5 online now! What's new? You can read the release notes here, but in a nutshell: New, cooler, shinier Gantt charts Dynamic templates Easier time sheets Better custom reports Skins AceProject 4.5 took about 6 months to make, and we are very proud...