New on Goplan 2: Status updates

Fred Oliveira on March 12, 2009, Comments (9)

Time to start talking not about what we changed in previous functionality and UI, but about the new goodies. First however, it makes sense to talk about our previous chat functionality and how it had an impact on our decision to add status updates to Goplan.

Goplan 1 includes real-time chat functionality. Although it seemed like a good idea when we implemented it, we’ve come to realize through our own experience and user feedback that it required constant attention and a dedicated tab. When you’re trying to work, thats not that great. So we decided to go with a different paradigm for how we approach team-wide communication. Enter status updates.

Goplan 2: Status updates

If you use Twitter or Friendfeed you’re already familiar with the concept of activity streams or status updates. We’re bringing that concept into goplan for several reasons, the most important of which is that it is unobtrusive. If you need to know what your team is up to, you just check the team-wide status updates page and you’re done. Updating the status is super easy because there’s a readily available form on top of all pages - you just need to click “Update your status” to slide it down.

Goplan 2: Status updates

I suspect people who use Twitter will immediately see the benefit of having these updates on their company dashboard and projects. We’re also planning on having these status updates go to your IM (Google Chat, Jabber, hopefully others), and/or integrate with your account on Twitter, which will definitely be exciting.

We think this is great - and we hope you like it as well. There’s more stuff coming, and while we’re slowing down our posting frequency (there’s only so much we can/want to spoil about the upcoming launch), we’re also getting closer and closer to getting Goplan 2 out there, so keep an eye out. And if you have any feedback or ideas, let us know!

Comments:

Plasplease include iPhone app have iPhone app

If I could choose one feature that would be introduced in Goplan2, then this would be the one. Can’t wait.

Will you be including more information about the memberlist of a project ?

It would be great to have the possiblity to add phone numbers, address, etc.. a kind of directory of all members with their informations.. thing that is missing on v1.

Thank you for your great work and I can’t wait to see the v2 released!

I agree with Laura, iPhone app. please!

Also, I’m not thrilled about the colors. Will we have some theme control? I actually like your healthy green colors, though if you’re just going to put one horizontal bar with green, I’d opt for the softer green on the tabs of the current version, or keep the green theme, or give us some color control.

C’mon guys, time to release v2.0 EVEN IF IT’S NOT 100% READY. Spending months teasing it is worse in my view than releasing it and steadily improving it over time.

Time to get off the pot and let your users gain some benefit NOW from v2.0. :)

Anymore updates coming? If the team is hard at work finishing Go Plan 2.0 and has no time for anymore updates that’s cool. I just wanna get my hands on this bad boy. Or at least learn more about its features.

What’s next?

I am eagerly waiting 2.0, since I purchased this product expecting an upgrade soon. Can you give me a date? Will applying task owners, etc, be less time-consuming (able to do it in one screen)?

iPhone/iPod touch app would be great.

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