This Thanksgiving holiday, we have good cause to be grateful to all the folks who gave us detailed feedback on our new task management software, and helped us identify about 25 different improvements that we plan to make over the next week covering areas such as:

• Eliminating any confusion that might exist regarding project privacy;
• Making it easier to edit card titles;
• Making it easier to chat on individual cards;
• Improving the emails that are sent when people are added or removed from projects;
• Improving the overall performance, by at least by 50%;
• Simplifying the experience for new users;
• Simplifying the use of canvases and whiteboards;
• Adding helpful hints throughout the product; and
• Eliminating references to “Kanban” which some people find confusing (without eliminating any functionality).

We will be updating Kerika next week, and will continue to release new versions every two weeks, and over the next month we plan to market and publicize the software more.

At long last, task management comes to Kerika!

We are launching a brand-new version of Kerika this weekend: the fruits of over 8 months of intense research and design of the only taskboard that’s designed specially for distributed teams. There’s a short video that we urge you to watch: it provides a good overview of Kerika’s new capabilities:

• You can organize your work using cards on a virtual task board: the interface is easy to understand and delightful to use.
• Each card can contain details of the work, and, of course, you can add content from your laptop or the Web to each card.
• Each card can be assigned to one or more people from your project team: Kerika lets you see at a glance who is working on what.
• Chat is integrated directly with your work: you can send messages that are attached to your cards, or the entire taskboard.
• You can get started with one of our standard project templates, or create your own process templates to reflect your organization’s best practices and proprietary methodologies.
• Kerika’s unique whiteboard capabilities are integrated with the new task management: you can add a canvas to each card for sharing ideas, and everything updates in real-time as usual.
• And our special focus continues to be the challenges faced by teams that are distributed over different locations — it could be that you are working with people offshore, or simply working from home: Kerika makes it easy for you to see, at a glance, exactly what’s changed on each work item in each project.

As usual, we look forward to your feedback! (Contact us by email.)