One of our team, Lara, just sent me a link to a great article written by Joel Spolsky about programmers and shipping product called: .
The Duct Tape Programmer
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html .
It’s basically saying don’t worry too much about the polish on your code or getting it 100%, just ship it! I talk to other [...]
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It’s fairly easy. Talk, Blog, Syndicate, SEO, Tweet, and build a Solid Product. Then look after users and they’ll become evangelists.
“Code customers only make up 8% of our customer base (today), it show’s you the move from code to SaaS, 100% of our customers used to be code” – this was a quote I noticed on a staff members Twitter account.
He’s right though. We operate a leading project management software company – www.proworkflow.com. We’ve been around since 2002 and have seen a few things over that time. The most obvious is the natural shift from a ‘Code Selling’ model to a ‘Subscription/SaaS’. I say a ‘NATURAL’ shift because over the past 4 years we’ve been marketing a single solution with both code download and subscription option.
When we began, we only offered the code download option, and listed in many code libraries. 2 years later, we started the subscription offering (SaaS/Software as a Service). At no point did we ever really push the deployment option as a marketing angle. Simply put, our approach has always been that we have a solution, and customers can either download locally or host with us on subscription. It’s their choice – not us pushing.
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After a busy year of development, we’ve decided it’s time to sit down and do some annual code ‘house cleaning’. ProWorkflow has been well established for a few years now and over that time we’ve continually developed the application thanks to great customer feedback.
However, times and technology have changed – we develop all code to a high current standard, however, some older code in the application is being rewritten or optimized to perform better or to take advantage of new technologies. Read More…
Our development team have been working on an integration module between our ProWorkflow application (www.proworkflow.com) and XERO (www.xero.com). ProWorkflow is web based project management software and XERO is web based accounting software. Both operate under a SaaS (Software As A Service) model. The aim is to transfer invoices from ProWorkflow to XERO and update the invoice status from XERO back into ProWorkflow.
