the flying squirrel

Say you’re on an agile software development team and your Customer doesn’t care about release planning or even whether you make your commitment in an iteration. You’re a good team and he’s confident you’ll get the work done when it needs to get done. Is there still value in tracking velocity? If your customer doesn’t [...]

Another six months, another Ubuntu release party! Holly was wonderful and decorated a maverick meerkat cake for us again. Ubuntu 10.10 was released on 2010-10-10 (at 10:10am). But that was Thanksgiving, so we had our party the next weekend, on the 16th.