Progress continues on the resolution of known issues in the Team Solution Software system.  Our development team is busy attacking that list, and our private beta testers continue to use it daily in their operations.  That beta testing use has helped substantially in tracking down those known issues in the system, and also given us an opportunity to make very small adjustments in the user interface to accommodate those glitches.  Want to know what that means?

In the development of custom software, there is always a difference between what you originally design for user interfaces and what you ultimately decide upon for the version 1.0 release.  What appeared to be a good idea on a mockup doesn’t always translate well in to a friendly interface that works well, smoothly and in an orderly way.  Once you start using a custom software system, there is the inevitable “I like this, but, I’d like it more if . . . . . ” and the list begins to grow.  Those kinds of tweaks are easy to make cosmetically, but there is always the programmatic change behind the curtain that has to be worked in order to make the cosmetic change fully integrated into the whole thing.

This is where we are right now in development.  These tweaks and edits will continue for another couple of weeks, and then we anticipate releasing the public beta version.  We have several companies who have agreed to be our public beta testers, and we’ll be setting up those accounts shortly.  In the meantime, KISS Computing, Inc. continues to use TSS for its daily project management tool, and we are liking its features.

We’ll be back here soon to tell more, and then in April the system will be available for public use.  We’re fairly excited about that.