An excerpt from the last three weeks of every significant software project I’ve shipped: scurry scurry scurry scurry BUG! LOOKS BAD SCURRY SCURRY SCURRY OK NOT THAT BAD PROCEED scurry scurry scurry scurry BUG! LOOKS REAL BAD SCURRY SCURRY CONFIRMED IT’S BAD SCURRY SCURRY OK FIXED FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE TEST THIS scurry… more
My favorite part of shipping a product is crunch time. It’s the month or so before a major release when you’ve acknowledged that you can no longer delay the inevitable — you must ship this product. What’s gratifying about crunch time is the velocity with which the product team moves. Decision-making occurs in the hallway.… more
At the new gig, everyone is sporting fancy laptops and the whole building is wired for 802.11b. This has some significant implications on the way work gets done in a meeting.
