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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Standing Meetings and Regular Meetings 

So after pointing over to VisionPace's excellent posts on meetings, I've had my own going for a while using Campfire, another totally awesome product from 37 Signals.

Funny thing is I sent out the post noting that the meeting would be only about 5 minutes every day at 11:30. I only get one attendee, Todd (as opposed to the original 5 requested - it's the sound of one hand clapping). Everyone is super busy but you've got to wonder - if you're too busy for a 5 minute meeting, what else might you be missing?

On a great note though, Todd and I are moving forward on code review meetings and I think that we may be sharing source between both the desktop and the SQL product pretty soon.

That's a great step forward because it should let up some development issues on him as well as ensure we're both aware of all issues that are facing both products.

Only problem? The desktop is in VFP 8 and the SQL is VFP 9 - but we'll get over it. I was able to take the new Common forms library and implement it over on the desktop in just a few minutes.

We do these meetings daily and they really go a long way to ensuring that between the two of us, we're on top of what's happening in the core product.


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From BaseCamp to NetSuite to CRM and back again... 

For managing projects quickly and easily, you can't get much better than BaseCamp for a number of reasons:

1) it's inexpensive (free for smaller projects)
2) it's a great tracker of milestones, and tasks
3) it works amazingly well for putting your best public face forward.

That said, we switched to NetSuite for an all-encompassing CRM system (about 6 months ago) and now we're over to Microsoft CRM.

How many office systems can we go through in a year? The race is on.

Microsoft CRM is pretty cool but I still don't think it has all the features that Salesforce has (which I'm still pretty excited about).

I briefly got excited about Microsoft's Business Scorecard Manager but then when Sharepoint refuses to install on my Win2003 server over and over again (what? it tells me that I can't register ASP.Net because I'm not an administrator when I'm logged in as ADMIN - go figure), I just throw my hands up and say I'm going BACK to Basecamp!

This information is not the official position of MTI or Melton Technologies or its affiliates.

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