Ticket Custom Fields Have Arrived!

With the release of powderDesk v1.9 you now have access to a powerful new feature, Ticket Custom Fields.  We created this feature to provide our customers with some additional flexibility on their incoming requests.  The way you use this feature is pretty straight forward so I will go over the basics in this post.  However, if you would like a more in-depth review of this (or any other) feature, feel free to schedule a live tour with us!

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Nathan Nadeau

3 Features We Are Adding to powderDesk

An important part of our process and our general development philosophy is to have an open dialogue with our users.   When it comes to the features and functions we plan to include in powderDesk, user feedback is key in helping us get a handle on what we need to prioritize and where we should focus our attention with upcoming sprints.  Our newest survey is built around the next 3 things we'll be working on to start 2014.  This survey helps us understand the order of importance for our users and gives us a chance to gather additional details and feedback on each feature.  When you have a few minutes free take our survey and help us make powderDesk as great as it can be!

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Shiraz Hemani

powderDesk v1.1 - Some Fixes and Some Exciting New Features Coming Soon

We have been hard at work behind the scenes developing some exciting new features for powderDesk and addressing any bug reports we've received.  We would like to thank our entire user community for the bug reports we've received over the past several weeks.  One of our goals is to make sure that powderDesk is as bug free as possible so we try to address items as soon as they're reported.

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Nathan Nadeau

3 Things Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov

I'm sure there are more than a few Project Managers out there who have watched events unfold over the past month with a lot of head-scratching, I know I am one of them.  The troubled roll out of Healthcare.gov has flamed passions on both sides of the aisle, but when you look beyond the politics of the situation, I think there are actually some valuable lessons for developers.  The things I've taken away from the roll out revolve around its 3 most obvious shortcomings as I see them.

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Shiraz Hemani

The powderDesk™ v1.0 Release

We're excited to announce that powderDesk™  v1.0 is now available for purchase!  Our adherence to Agile software development and our use of Scrum is a big part of how we've managed to develop our 1.0 release so rapidly.  I'm really proud of the team here at Spire for creating such a rich application completely from scratch.  

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Shiraz Hemani

Approaching our MVP

We've been working on a number of items over the past few months but per our adherence to Scrum, if something is 99% complete we consider it incomplete.  The items below in Fixes and Additions are items that are 100% complete and can be reviewed in our online demo.

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jan siemaszko