Week #45 goals

Automate single-tenant instance provisioning
Automate single-tenant instance update
Implement live meta-data updates
Integrate workflow engine with user interface
Implement series perspective
Implement all financial functions
Implement new form controls
Complete refactoring of object view
Cross over 75% of Kickstarter’s funding target
Cross over 1,000 reputation points on Stackoverflow
Answer 500 questions on stack.stoic.com
Complete migration of wishlist to stack.stoic.com
Implement custom badges on stack.stoic.com
Schedule 2013 board meetings

Week #44 achievements

Growth: 30% (down from 43% last week)

Delivered on plan

Implemented expression engine
Implemented click-through user agreement
Completed mindmap perspective
Cleanup code of view editor
Crossed over 60% of Kickstarter’s funding target
Cross over 750 reputation points on Stackoverflow

Delivered beyond plan

Released new community website

Not delivered

Automate single-tenant instance provisioning
Automate single-tenant instance update
Implement live meta-data updates
Implement series perspective
Implement all financial functions
Cross over 75% of Kickstarter’s funding target
Schedule 2013 board meetings

Post-mortem

With $15,400 pledged by 137 backers, our adoption rate was 376.5, up from 290 last week, which translated into a decent 30% week-over-week growth (down from 43% last week). But most of that came from a single pledge, so we need to get more people to pledge now. While we could not deliver our automated instance provisioning and update framework, we made some good progress, and hope to have something to show this week. Same for live meta-data updates. Progress on Formula.js has stalled a little bit, but that’s because we shifted our focus to stack.stoic.com, which came out great. Pretty intense week overall…

Week #44 goals

Automate single-tenant instance provisioning
Automate single-tenant instance update
Implement live meta-data updates
Implement expression engine
Implement click-through user agreement
Complete mindmap perspective
Implement series perspective
Implement all financial functions
Cleanup code of view editor
Cross over 75% of Kickstarter’s funding target
Cross over 750 reputation points on Stackoverflow
Schedule 2013 board meetings

Week #43 achievements

Growth: 43% (up from 31%)

Delivered on plan

Fixed main memory leak on server
Drafted specification for workflow actions
Implemented flowchart designer
Implemented dendrogram perspective
Implemented mindmap perspective
Implemented more financial functions
Organized first webinar
Released Kickstarter video
Crossed over 40% of Kickstarter’s funding target
Deployed instances for first early adopters

Delivered beyond plan

Released full-length screencast
Started work on single-tenant provisioning
Implemented object for Support application
Improved performance of Formula.js documentation
Published quotes from early adopters
Crossed over 400 reputation points on Stackoverflow

Not delivered

Connect workflow engine to user interface
Implement live meta-data updates
Implement series perspective
Implement all financial functions
Cleanup code of view editor
Schedule 2013 board meetings

Post-mortem

With $11,575 pledged by 117 backers, our adoption rate was 290, up from 203.5 last week, which translated into a cool 43% week-over-week growth. Overall, last week was great. A major memory leak was fixed, the performance of our product was massively improved by moving to CloudFoundry, and a lot of our infrastructure is starting to fall into place. More of these please!

Week #43 goals

Fix memory leak on server
Connect workflow engine to user interface
Draft specification for workflow actions
Implement live meta-data updates
Implement flowchart designer
Implement dendrogram perspective
Implement mindmap perspective
Implement series perspective
Implement all financial functions
Cleanup code of view editor
Organize first webinar
Release Kickstarter video
Cross over 40% of Kickstarter’s funding target
Deploy instances for first early adopters
Schedule 2013 board meetings

Week #42 achievements

Growth: 31%

Delivered on plan

Implemented roundtrip spreadsheet import/export
Implemented columns perspective
Improved flowchart generator
Improved speed of user interface
Developed framework for detection of memory leaks
Created landing pages for connectors
Crossed over 30% of Kickstarter’s funding target
Booked plane tickets and made hotel reservations for January meetups
Defined new weekly growth metric
Onboarded new intern

Delivered beyond plan

Implemented first financial functions
Scheduled first webinar

Not delivered

Implement live meta-data updates
Implement all engineering functions
Implement all information functions
Implement all lookup functions
Add more charts to Formula.js documentation
Fix memory leak
Draft future Kickstart campaigns for connectors and open source projects

Post-mortem

With $8,125 pledged by 82 backers, our adoption rate was 203.5, up from 155 last week, which translated into a cool 31% week-over-week growth. We’re still struggling with the challenge of identifying memory leaks with JavaScript and hit a bump on the road with financial functions for Formula.js, but we’re now making progress again on both fronts. Interesting week ahead.