Hey lazyweb, I’m sure I read an article on-line in the past couple of weeks, that described the development style at Microsoft, during an early version of Word or Works or whatever. The article talked about how the project was a total death march, with engineers only implementing features when someone filed a bug saying that some feature didn’t work.
Did my broken mind dream up this article, or did I really read it? Where did I read it? It seems an appropriate thing to point out to people, in certain situations (hypothetically speaking…).
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Roman Kennke | 12-Sep-07 at 11:05 pm | Permalink
I think I’ve read it in a book called ‘Barbarians led by Bill Gates’. Very good book.
Tom Dunstan | 14-Sep-07 at 12:41 pm | Permalink
Was this it? It’s sorta mentioned in passing… http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
Cheers
Tom
csm | 14-Sep-07 at 4:07 pm | Permalink
@Tom: Yeah, that’s it. I thought it was Joel Spolsky, but forgot that it was an article from 2000! Explains why I couldn’t find it.
The book sounds interesting, though.