FogBugz and Kiln World Tour Talk by Joel Spolsky

[mejiggy]

There is the concept of sprint backlog and product backlog.. it was a good question.

[ennot]

good presentation, dangerous product. When you have a well-presented stats, it's hard not to start trusting them. But stats are garbage in - garbage out, and developers are bad at filling in and keeping up to date various databases with progress and estimates.

I would rather just talk to the team than have them fill in a database and have that played at me by a tool.

Only hard facts can be statistically analyzed, and even that is very hard to interpret correctly

[jedsen]

Bow to this man's genius. What a brilliant, imaginative, insightful person.

[jpnsage]

Does anybody know where I could find a video for the talk that Joel introduces?

[abuehlcadifra]

@jpnsage  youtube.com/watch?v=-k2vLKOUb8­s

[jpnsage]

@abuehlcadifra Thanks very much for the link!

[janwn]

Nice presentation, although it could do without Stallman bashing (slide with Gnats).

[APErebus]

One of the best presentations I have ever seen. Fantastically well presented and structured.

I signed up for the Student/Startup because of this, so they are the winners!

[rojepp]

Separate the actions of Commit and Inflict. Nicely put!

[arcoant]

Now this is how you make a presentation!

[gearsofwarmandem]

Joel Spolsky is a beast :)

Nice talk