It’s like seeing your first born take on the world …
(… not like I’d know of course)
Over the past few months I have been working on what was my first project involved with the MIGTurbo CRM application, the Microsoft Outlook Toolbar.
The toolbar provides access to client/contact records within MIGTurbo along with access to some of the MIGTurbo plug-ins, such as DocuMentor for attaching documents stored within MIGTurbo and TimeTracker allocating correspondence to projects. The new toolbar is built around our new MIGTurbo API, which will form the basis of MIGTurbo 2.0 and will be released later in the year.
We’ve been listening to our client’s feedback about the previous versions of the toolbar and think we have matched their expectations for reliability and performance. Although I do not agree with releasing “Beta” software out to users without a level of technical awareness, testing was going to be essential. Therefore, for the last month or so, we’ve been deploying our pretentiously titled ‘Elective Sunrise Edition’ to try and give some clients a preview of the toolbar and try to spot any issues that we wouldn’t spot until it was released “into the wild”. The response to the toolbar has been very positive and we’re pleased to say we’ve released the toolbar officially and will be installing it in the next few months.
As the developer of the toolbar, it’s a mixed time for me. I’m pleased to see it reach “Gold” status (to attach an equally pretentious title), but I’m touched by a sense of nervousness about how well it will perform in the “real world”. We’re confident in it though, having tested it in some differing networks with their own challenges (security policy, topology, organisational etc.). Although I have no idea what it would be like, I do get the sense it would be like seeing your first-born start school for the first time!
