Feedback

In order to get feedback from testers, a new feature was added to the Forecast Exchange today. On the left side you will see a red button saying Feedback. By clicking that you will find a list of suggested new features which you can vote on. All users gets ten votes they can spread over the different suggestions as they please (max 3 per item). The idea is then that the most voted for suggestions will be the next to be developed.

If you have a similar web site you can easily add this feature yourself. UserVoice is the company that does this. Most features are available for free. For an open source project like this you even get unlimited use on the features, in some areas even more than for the professional version. Our link was registered and we had to add a code snippet generated by UserVoice to our main.master file and that was it. Very cool!

Hello World!

Welcome to a blog about life, the Universe and the Forecast Exchange. My name is Halvard Hagesaether, I am 38 years old and I work for a small software development company in Norway. Over the last few years this company has undergone extensive changes in their way of organizing development, becoming more agile, dynamic or whatever is the current buzz word for it. Thinking a lot about these changes, reading about cutting edge research and having a general love for counter intuitive ideas, I have come up with the idea of the Forecast Exchange.

With great help from colleagues this has so far ended up with an open source project you can find at CodePlex. Open source means it is free for all, even the code behind it. What it is all about I will come back to soon, this is just a welcome message for this blog.