This week the goals revolved around setting the table, and by that count it was a good week. The web app has enough functionality that we can begin to test, and hopefully flush out some bugs early while the Dev team moves on to some of the harder features. On the schools front, we had some very encouraging teacher training sessions in advance of some pilots starting next week. It's always nice, after years of design and development, to plunk something down in front of a teacher and for them to instantly get it. Next week we'll be on-site with a handful of classes as they turn their students loose on the app for the first time. Exciting.
Review
Web App development continues, as does work on Thumbprint 1.0.3. We found a couple of issues in the multiple choice creation screen that are affecting some users. Testing is underway, and I'm hopeful that we can submit our fixes to Apple before the end of the year.
Multiple Choice for the web app has been submitted for testing, and early results look promising. Search is being held up by an interdependence issue that raised it's head this week, but that should be resolved by tomorrow.
Meanwhile, we've had what feels like 4 feet of snow this week, and more coming on the weekend. Haven't seen a December like this in 20 years. It's beautiful, right up until you try to go outside and do something. Hope you're keeping warm where you are.
Goals
Every week I write some of our goals down, in part to give you a glimpse into what we're up to, in part to keep us honest. I usually focus on development goals, because sales goals would involve revealing information about our not-yet-customers that nobody would be comfortable with. So on the customer side, let me say that I'm very happy with the way things are going right now and leave it at that.
Web App development is underway. We're testing Multiple Choice now and hope to have a basic version of Search to test by the end of the week. A lot of time gets spent making sure we're compatible with multiple browsers, which is a familiar problem to anyone who's developed for the web. In a way it's the opposite of iOS development. Last year we fought hard to implement functionality and had an easy time with layout. Now, it's Opposite Day. At least it's a change of pace.
The big goal is that we want to have all of this sealed and delivered by March Break. Ambitious, but doable thanks to our crack development squad.
Goals
For weeks the entire development team has been working on reports. We'll, last night they went live. There's still a lot of tire-kicking to do, and some calculations to fix, but as of today the team moves on to the other big project - the web version of Thumbprint. Milestone for this week? See if we can get Multiple Choice quizzes working in the browser. Check back on Thursday to see how we did.