Communication and work with community

BlackSix · #1 08-24-2012, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by mazex

Hi B6!

This may sound like I'm trying to come here and "know better" but as a development manager myself I'm a bit interested if you have considered a more agile approach to development? You of course know what I mean by that, but for the non-devs here I mean where you work with fixed iterations of for example three or four weeks. Everything that is developed and tested in a "sprint" (iteration) goes to production (in your case into the next patch). You go forward with continous integration of a working code base in small steps with regular feedback from the customers. As it is now the customers that don't visit this forum have not received any updates since last year which is kind of a problem?

So, in our team team at least we have had great success going from classic waterfall methodology to Scrum based development, we don't do games but very complex software... We pick a few tasks, focus on them with the whole team (architects, developers and testers together) and go all the way with them (done done as it's called). Only after they are done and accepted by the customers we focus on the next task. Working that way with complex code makes testing a lot easier too as there are not changes done in a lot of places that makes testing a pure he'll...

The developers like it a lot better as they have a few tasks that they can focus on together instead of a constant backlog that is being worked on by everyone at the same time for a long time. The ones that like it best are of course the testers that no longer have to sit waiting for weeks and then the whole system has changed in a zillion places... Or, wait - maybe it's the customers that like it best as they get regular updates?

There is a feeling at least that a lot of areas are being worked on right now simultaneously but few get done all the way?

I know comments like this are sensitive and invite to an answer like: "How we work internally is none of your friggin problem!"

But I assure you It's written with good intentions...

/mazex

Hi!
It is a difficult question and it completely out of my competence, I can't answer, sorry.

BlackSix · #2 08-24-2012, 11:06 AM

Important information.

Guys, our programmers are asking me to stop sending them the bugs in the manual mode. They study threads with bugs, they have a plan of work and when something will be done - it will be added in the new patch.

When it will be added then we'll tell you about this.

Please, use special theme for your bug reports, we are reading this.
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=33612

SiThSpAwN · #3 08-24-2012, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackSix

Important information.

Guys, our programmers are asking me to stop sending them the bugs in the manual mode. They study threads with bugs, they have a plan of work and when something will be done - it will be added in the new patch.

When it will be added then we'll tell you about this.

Please, use special theme for your bug reports, we are reading this.
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=33612

If they have a plan it would be nice to have that shared some what, we havent seen a Road Map from the top in some time, I know that is not something you have to give, but maybe you could ask that we get an updated Road Map, right now we got a great beta patch and then no updates for a couple weeks, I feel like a dog that just got told he was a good boy then got smacked in the nose with a newspaper lol....