thirty-sixSET YOUR PRIORITIES
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2005
It was getting time to stop futzing around with FogBugz 4.0 and start working on 5.0. We just shipped a big service pack, fixing a zillion tiny little bugs that nobody would ever come across (and introducing a couple of new tiny little bugs that nobody will ever come across), and it was time to start adding some gen-yoo-ine new features.
By the time we were ready to start development, we had enough ideas for improvement to occupy 1,700 programmers for a few decades. Unfortunately, all we have is three programmers, and we wanted to be shipping next fall, so there had to be some prioritization.
Before I tell you how we prioritized our list of features, let me tell you two ways not to do ...
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