Painless Software Management
Copyright 1999-2006 Joel Spolsky.
I'm not aware of any other software lifecycle tools that go to such great lengths to help you produce good estimates.” Rafe Colburn : “We?re rolling out FogBugz 6.0 at work, and I?m finding that I actually like the time tracking.
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Read Some feedback on EBS (Links)
Using Evidence-Based Scheduling is pretty easy: it will take you a day or two at the beginning of every iteration to produce detailed estimates, and it?ll take a few seconds every day to record when you start working on a new task on a timesheet.
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Read The Institute for Kiwi Studies (Links)
The final video, compressed in Flash Video format, came out to about 264 MB, so the next trick was finding a place to host it. So anyway, when we needed a place to host the video, I naturally asked Peer 1, and it turns out they have something called a Content Delivery Network.
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Read FogBugz World Tour video now available (Links)
Next up on the FogBugz World Tour: Europe! The Austin FogBugz demo turned out to be a 256MB flash video (FLV), and I think we really need a streaming Flash server to host it, which we don't have. Visit the Joel on Software Job Board : Great software jobs, great people.
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The great music we've been using to launch FogBugz 6.0?in the demo movie and the world tour?is a song called Sound Scientist by a San Diego band named bill. Download the MP3. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.
Read Sound Scientist (Links)
Probably the most interesting part of 6.0 is Evidence-Based Scheduling, which uses a statistical technique called bootstrapping (a variation on Monte Carlo) to determine the probability that you'll ship on any given date.
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Read Introducing FogBugz 6.0 (Links)
The FogBugz demo in Austin was filmed, and be available on this site in a few days. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.
Read Live from Austin (Links)
Thanks to the spiffy new computers, they don't have nearly enough people working there to handle the loads when the computers break down, but there were still three Hertz employees sitting around in the manager's office shooting the breeze despite the lines of angry customers out the door.
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