--- Jan Schenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Tim Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So now that Supercard 4 is out. What are your > > opinions? I was reading > > in MacWorld and they kind of made a stab at Rev > for > > waiting so long to > > release 2. I have to say it is funny. I mean > what > > is the hold up. I > > don't mean to be a jerk but I don't see how they > > could possibly miss > > their original announcement by 4 months of just > bug > > fixing. What is > > going on? > > > > Well, Tim, let's see how a group of developers > usually > ends up in this type of situation : > - have a large number of users all asking for > extensions for their particular field of work > - worst-case scenario extension to this is when you > have a bunch of salespeople promising heaven on > earth > without having a clue as to how much work is needed > - have a huge load of brilliant ideas yourself and > feel the urge to squeeze them all in > - make quick prototypes and horribly underestimate > the > time needed to not only fully develop them, but also > to debug them and subsequently polish the thing > 'till > it shines > - realise late in the project that you'll have to > change the line up for either short-term or > long-term > compatibility > - be dependent on another vendor for core technology > (MetaCard 2.5 is still in beta, and I don't think > that > was exactly planned either) > - have to find work-arounds for limitations, bugs > and > incompatibilities at OS level > - interrupt your schedule for work that will bring > in > cash right away rather than getting sucked dry by a > project that is already behind schedule > - feel the competition breathing down your neck and > the subsequent additional feature creep > - mix in pressure from a few more angles, and see > some > people actually underperforming because of it > - add bugs because of all this, and you get a very > tough product development cycle >
And in all this, I haven't even touched the surface of personnel change -- again, no indication of that happening over at RunRev HQ ; but another factor that can seriously impact the development cycle. It's a shame one can't _really_ make software at the speed of thought. Though some tools make it a lot easier indeed. Jan Schenkel. ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution