[Dxbase] FW: DXBase - Comments on Status from my point of view

Mon Sep 6 21:50:51 EDT 2010

You can think all you want, but we would all be dead if we were holding our breath. Don't give yourself that much credit yet.....

Score Card To Date

Releases - Zero

Deadlines - None Published (and answers about dates are a little to "cute" for my liking from a new owner. See the comment quoted at the end of this)

Pre-release screen shots on the web site - Zero

Programming Skills - Unknown

Customer Service Skills - No warm and fuzzy here (See deadlines comment above among other things)

Quality Assurance Testing - Unknown

Loyal DXBase Customer Following - Starting to fade from lack of information (Are we riding a dark horse at this point?)

Bonding with Joe (WA6AXE) who has developed dozens of reports and fixes for us - Seems to be a lot of friction there

Support of other applications such as AXETTY, DxbPSK, Realtime LOTW, etc - Unknown

And the list goes on.........

Immediate Turn Around Improvement Opportunities

Publish a page on your web site dedicated to DXBase that has links to:

A project plan with target dates for each major part of the next release, up to and including a target date for the release.

Screen shots of what you have done so far. Worse thing you could do is go blindly down a path and discover the users hate the interface you have developed on your first release. (This would be HUGE)

Read your comments twice before you publish them. You may think they are "cute", a lot of us do not.

Do you have others using the product in beta testing? Your log and contact volume may be a whole lot different from a contesters or true heavy-duty DXer.

Include things like DxbPSK in the time lines so we can see if there are "bolt on" applications that we are using and are not yet included.

Closing Thoughts

There are a lot of IT professionals in your following, so comments like deadlines are hard to establish because of programming changes don't cut it.

You worked for IBM - Did they ever run a project like this?????

I feel the flames coming, but sometimes the truth hurts........

Neal Campbell wrote:
> I'm still here!
>> I think the silence is everyone holding their breath for the next release!