Current Software Development Schedule:
This is the best schedule that we can currently provide.
Date Task Details
Q3 2011 We continue to work full time on rewriting our software with the intention of releasing V7 in Q1 2012.
Our Objective is to provide the best, fastest and most reliable code that we can.
 To understand this you need to realise that all software is improved and is made better in reponse to user and market requests.
However as enhancements are made the software ages because the original concepts are either down-graded, changed or removed.

Hence we are taking the time to make all the code as perfect as possible and it is imporant to realise that very few software packages have the luxury of doing this.
So we are realigning all the internal code concepts to reflect the current product form whilst adding in some additional facilties such as a Checkbox Compliance Monthly grid which was requested by customers wanting to keep track of contractors so this can be visible as gauges throughout their Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map.

We regard this software realignment as an essential step in providing the 3 overlays that almost every customer needs:
1. Website Generation in different forms. 2. Password Access Control. 3. Multi language capability.
Q2 2011 V7 of our software continues with a new 64 bit compatible database design, a Language module and Web Client Software We have been asked many times to provide a language module for the software and this will be done when the V7 software has stabilised. The language module will allow users and resellers to convert the standard phrases used in the software into a different language.

A web-based system will also be written which will work concurrently with the Version 7 system, so users will be able to use either the Web based system or the current Windows Forms based system, both connected to the same database.
Q1-Q2 2011 V5 of our software required firther enhancements and we ran out of version numbers.
Hence the V5 series overflowed onto V6 and the new B6 system with the new database structure will be called V7. 		We have been asked many times to provide a language module for the software and this will be done when the V6 software has stabilised. The language module will allow users and resellers to convert the standard phrases used in the software into a different language.

A web-based system will also be written which will work concurrently with the Version 6 system, so users will be able to use either the Web based system or the current Windows Forms based system, both connected to the same database.
Q2-Q4 2010 Write and release Version 5.x series With the end of the V5 series our software has reached it's final product form, and our focus will be on providing more reliable and faster software, however we will stil be very interested in customer requests.
Q2 2010 Write and release Version 4.9 We are currently working on Version 4.9 to include more of our proposed V5 features.
We hope to release this at the end of April 2009 with 10 major improvements to the software made in response to customer requests.
This will be the end of the version 4 series.
Q1 2010 Write and release Version 4.8 Further improvements and more action on customer requests were made when releasing this version in February 2010.
Features that were previously scheduled for Version 5 have been included here as V5 has been delayed.
Q4 2009 Write and release Version 4.7 We have had a number of customer requests to make improvements and this new version will provide some of these.
June/July 2009 Proceed with Creating more Training videos including the creation of your own Strategic Picture (Strategy Map and Statements). The video tutorials will be of great benefit to everybody in gaining an understanding of how our software and the K&N Balanced Scorecard process operates.
Each video will be between 3 and 12 minutes long, to reduce the download time.
August 2009 Create Improved Strategic Plan examples to be included in our software download. The examples that we currently supply are of a poor quality or are outdated. Many people rely in these examples to teach them how to create their own Strategic Plan.
August 2009 Return to the software development system to do more testing and fix any issues found. There will always be errors in the software as users will always find a use that was not allowed for.
Hence it is impossible to test everything and we reply on reports of problems from customers.
September 2009 Begin the process of creating version 5 of our software to include additional features.
This is expected to take two months to complete. 		V5 will have a new database structure and hence it will need to install as a different product so that existing data is not lost.
We will provide backwards compatibility with V4 XML export so that everyone can transfer their Strategic Plans into the new version.
After V5 is done Create a read-only web client version of our software. It is essential that a the Strategic Plan be viewed over the Internet.
Changing the data over the internet is however a big security issue because if an invader got hold of it they could destroy your operations.
In addition to this the interface available using Internet Explorer is insufficient to construct a professional Strategic Plan.
after V5 is done Create a link to MS Project. It is good having somebody running around the organization fixing everything, but the details are on their own computer and so nobody knows what is happening.
It this could be imported into a Strategic Plan then it can be aligned with the Strategic Objectives and become visible to other people.
V5 Requirements Re-design the database structure to normalise facilities that have been added since V3 and fitted into the Spare columns.
Allow for password usage and Objective cascading.
Look at adding an aggregated "output" column to the grids and Strategy Map which would work in parallel with the Gauge column and be derived from the Monthly Grid values. 		We never change the database structure between major versions and if an extra feature is required we use spare table columns.
The database structure needs to be enlarged and spare column space re-established.
Language Conversion Our Korean Reseller Decision Science Co has requested that we provide a lanugage conversion facility for standard terms and labels used in the software. We will look at doing this in September with Version 5.
Thanks Thanks for using our software. If you purchase a license then this helps everybody who cannot afford one.
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