http://www.elementale.com Designing project management software for creative teams. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:33:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I'm back in wintry Melbourne, after sunning myself in San Francisco, New York, and yes surprisingly even London. Lots of fantastic progress on where the company and product-set is headed over the next six months, some fantastic meetings with partners/customers, and some real directional consolidation which makes me smile. In amongst ... http://www.elementale.com/the-copper-usuk-tour-washup Just a quick post, we're continuing on development of 3.8 and 4.0 respectively, so there will be a minor update to current Corporate/Enterprise in the next month. Version 4.0 is now funded 25%, and we continue to seek Inner Circle participants We're also about to release a new Tour page, this ... http://www.elementale.com/copper-on-tour This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://www.elementale.com/inner-circle-update-1 This week we continue with design and development of the next version, and we've also started on a minor update for the current version. However, a few opportunities have come up to simplify the next version by potentially removing features. Well, not so much removing features, rather removing redundancies that exist ... http://www.elementale.com/features-questions-version4 Ok, last time I talked about our overarching requirements for the next version of Copper, here they are recapped: We’re going to reduce pages/clicks by 40% It needs to be something that I personally will use every single day We’re going to add 100% of the features in our specification document Simple, right? However ... http://www.elementale.com/copper-software-dev-sneak-peak I always get really excited when we kick off development of a new version. It begins after years of customer feedback, and even though we regularly add minor features, a major development like v4.0 means we get to add all of the goodies that we (and our customers) have always ... http://www.elementale.com/copper-project-version-4-kick-off Last week we launched our second annual Enterprise Inner Circle program, aimed at bringing on pre-order customers in order to fund the development of the Copper 4.0 product. We had some great responses, and now having completed our v4.0 specification (including 165 improvements) we need a certain number of participants ... http://www.elementale.com/crowdsourcing-software-budgets It's on again, we're looking for a group of customers or prospective customers to come on board as an Inner Circle partner. The way it works is this: We accept a group of customers into our development process for the next version in exchange for a pre-order of that version. We ... http://www.elementale.com/project-management-advertising-design-architecture-events-venue-product-film Just kidding, it's still a little preachy, but read on if you'd like to know more about how we're steering our little ship toward the big seas and how we'd like you on board (paddling, or bailing water, or as ballast. OK, enough with that metaphor). We've been through some significant ... http://www.elementale.com/project-management-sofware-manifesto Apologies in advance for the long winded rant, but heres an update for the first quarter of 2008! This year has already started strongly for us, we've been steadily working on new minor features and bug fixes, and the latest version is our best to date. I just wanted to post ... http://www.elementale.com/projectmanagementsoftware2008