BoxFile - My Latest Creation
For any of us working in an agency, clients can, quite frankly sometimes be a complete pain in the backside. Most of the time they're fine, but every now and then something happens that just muddies the whole relationship in some way. From my experience, this tends to be the good old we said / you said scenario surrounding your requirements or some previous agreement.
And it's not just us. Having spoke to people about this it seems to afflict nearly every industry out there. Every company seems to have a time where they find themselves fighting over agreed details, and who should pay for changes, purely because the initial sign off was badly managed. Overall I believe this costs companies hundreds, if not thousands of pounds every year, whilst people decide who's paying for what changes, and also the money lost when you need to satisfy requirements that weren't previously mentioned.
And it's because of this I decided to scratch my own itch and build a tool to try and solve this problem. Enter BoxFile stage left.
BoxFile is an attempt at solving this issue. BoxFile is a tool for managing project document sign off, and ensuring that that sign off is reliable. What's more, once a document has been signed off (by a signatory that you choose), it stays signed off, and cannot be changed, thus giving you the ammunition you need to protect yourself from the cost of having to implement new requirements and 'emerging features'.
BoxFile is currently in beta and therefore is free for anyone to use. The only cost is that people use the system and give feedback on how it could be improved or made more useful. Longer term, the product will become a subscription based tool.
So, check it out, have a play, even use it with your projects, and let me know what you think.
