Scoble throws it right back at Joel.

Joel over at Joel on software threw out some interesting commentary about how life at FogBugz palace is, compared to the dismal rags over at Microsoft *laugh*.   Scoble responded today with a colorful synopsis of just how bad life is at Microsoft.  I don't know about Joel's developers, but I sit in front of a 22" Apple Cinema display and use a Dual 3.6 Xeon with 2GB of memory ,15K SCSI  and a Quadro 3400 FX at home.

On a side note, how does bug tracking software get titled as "painless project management"?  I've always wondered how you could classify a great bug tracking system as a project management system.  They may intertwine, but I don't see how you can micro-manage a project by bugs.  There is a lot more to the delivery software than stamping out bugs...

5 Comments

  • Bugs can and will have an enormous impact on your progress, one bad bug can blow your shipping date.



    If you aren't tracking bugs, then how do you keep your project plan in touch/synch with the actual development.

  • Why track bugs separate from issues?

    Critical bugs can deffinately impact timelines on active development projects.



    We treat all features/fixes/bugs/requests as issues and track by project/version. Allows us to have accurate timelines and schedules _including_ bug fixes.



    Our productivity and deliverable quality has gone _way_ up since we started using the term 'issue' (s) for all of those. A bug is now just a type of issue.



    To that end, we also use a bug tracking package to track _all_ of our issues, not just bugs. Very useful. (No, not using FogBugz, rather using Altassian JIRA)

  • I don't disagree that bugs are a part of project management but it sure isn't all of it. What about tracking phases of software development, like QA, documentation etc etc. Interesting that some people manage projects this way, I can see it on a small scale but larger software projects would require different tools in my opinion.

  • At least someone was sane

  • Little had based by the subranges, when the number was in rain because of the contrast of cash to 3-cm artists.

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