So I've got a team that does about 8 releases per year, running software as a service, and each release is applied to only a subset of customers (typically...
... as ... has ... is ... Have you considered only having one actual version of the product then releasing "virtual versions" to the customers controlled via...
Hello D.André, My SAAS experiences managed to keep all customers on never more than a couple of months old versions of the system. Also, I don't know what...
I don't understand the model enough to have any valuable thoughts yet. I would be afraid to mess with the wrong things. If you deploy a different copy for each...
Tim, Curtis, Doug, I'm new on this team, so I don't know the answers to a lot of your questions--but your questions and ideas are helpful--thank you. More...
... The last option is the answer. But there is no magic silver bullet that will make all the consequences of our own history of bad decisions and mistakes go...
... I didn't see any support for this statement in your case study, can you provide more detail? IMO, fb succeeds as a platform, not an application. They seem...
... provide more detail? ... incredibly confused and slow to introduce anything UI/UX. ... For an app with millions of daily visitors, isn't it a major...
... Having a platform that handles millions of daily visitors may make you the only game in town, but that doesn't grant any UX status other than sufficient...
... accomplishment ... only game in town, but that doesn't grant any UX status other than sufficient enough. ... respond to the enter key rather than a button...
... Agile is about giving the business the knobs to iteratively drive business value. It is not about the techies deciding what is important or cool. Examples...
I saw this analysis of Angry Birds recently. Among everything else, he made one really statement that's relevant to this thread: UI goodness is hygienic: if...
The Angry Bird study is great - thanks for the link! I should have been more precise: I didn't mean to say that the user interface is just superficially...
... Did that, except for the infoQ video. Was there something specific you thought addressed my question? For me, as a FB user, what new things have been added...
Hi all, I know that there are a lot of old studies and statistics to say how much costs to develop some millions of source code lines in different high level...
I'm finding myself doing an increasing amount of consulting with early stage start ups. Often the tech teams are either inexperienced or I'm actually tasked...
Hello, Peter. On Thursday, April 7, 2011, at 2:54:13 PM, you ... Ask them if they would like to get their next brain surgery done by a surgeon who works 15...
A couple of useful metaphors where it is well know that being greedy is counterproductive: * Server utilization - it is well known that letting utilization go...
... If your team is pairing, then a coding session is like taking a hard exam. It's not routine work, and if it is then that work should be automated. One...
Join us for the 1st AgileTechDC conference on Saturday May 14th, 2011. The schedule is up and seats are going. Keynote Speaker: Rebecca J. Parsons - CTO -...
Hi all, ThoughtWorks and Technologic Arts are holding a charity event, titled "Agile Charity Event in Osaka", on April 29th as part of our reconstruction...
Hi, Our product is an embedded device. Looking externally, it is a powered box, say A. On one side of the box, their is a USB interface that need to be...
... In my opinion, acceptance testing should include as much of the 'real world' as practical. These are tests that don't necessarily have to run fast. They ...
... Thanks for the opinion. Maybe not to call it acceptance test, but system test? I am not so familiar to these definitions. The problem here is "How to...
I think you're both right. In any system, you want to have a mixture of unit, integration, and acceptance tests. The exact mix of how many of these you'd...
Here is my understanding of the problem and suggestion Input is entered via B, A reads values and makes the values available to C C transmits values over the...
Thanks a lot!! I basically think same with you, but your language is so much better! On Apr 26, 2011 10:39 PM, "Steven Smith" <ssmith.lists@...> wrote: ...
