From Zero to Hero

In late October, we arrived at the Projectplace Stockholm office in time for the weekly Monday briefing. We were two engineering students straight from university and didn’t really know what was waiting for us. All we knew was that our job was to develop Projectplace’s Android application, without really knowing what Projectplace was. Working close to the iOS team we were able to get off to a quick start, as well as the advantage of having their iPhone app to work against and receiving lots of help from more experienced coworkers. Projectplace is an agile company, which made it easy for us to get involved in the design and development processes. In our small team, just the two of us, we used a super agile approach; claim a task, implement and then push it. This is probably the main reason we could build and publish the Projectplace Documents app in...

What do we want? Ubiquity! When do we want it? Now!

Projectplace started in 1998 which makes us one of the first Softwares as a Service. In the late 90's, when dial-up was still the prevailing method of connecting to the Internet, it was a cutting edge feature to be able to access your project from any computer (with an Internet connection). More than a decade later, that is no longer the case. Wifi, 3g, 4g, laptops, and above all smartphones mean that these days we are connected to the Internet practically all the time and the way we work has changed with it. We expect to be able to answer our email and keep up to date whether we are at home, in the office or on the move. This means that it did not come as a complete surprise to us that one of the most requested developments on Projectplace Ideas - our forum for customer feedback - is to...

2011 - A marvelous year

2011 was the year the whole world went mobile. We work more frequently from home, from the bus, train, while travelling.. We are constantly logged in to our email, Facebook, Twitter and in Sweden EVERYBODY got addicted to the brain exercise game Wordfeud. Here's some insights and great stuff from 2011 that we would like to share with you all. 1. THE WORLD GOES MOBILE According to our yearly customer survey, 28% of our European users have an iPhone while 24% prefers Android. As 80% also use laptops we consider our customers to be a very mobile group of professionals. 2. A TOOL FOR THE FUTURE Last year, our development guys and girls focused on preparing our system for the future. We removed lots and lots of old frames and started to design and build our, soon to be launched, brand new support for “Collaborative Planning”. In June we launched the popular LIKE button...