The Old New Thing

In the product end game, every change carries significant risk

November 4, 2009 Nov 4, 2009 11/4/09

Raymond Chen

One of the things I mentioned in my talk the other week comparing school with Microsoft is that in school, as the deadline approaches, the work becomes increasingly frantic. On the other hand, in commercial software, as the deadline approaches, the rate of change slows down, because the risk of regression outweighs the benefit of the fix. A ...