Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com

Bill Anderson sent Rod a great rundown on why release dates are what they are. It is great perspective from someone who definitely knows what this kind of project is like. It is a must read for anyone who would like to know what a really goes into release dates that are posted. Very TechSexy! Yes Bill, TechSexy really does stick with you.

So, speculation. Each of you have a lot of experience in the world of managing IT projects, and you do have a good deal of expertise in thinking about how those may play out. But, I will tell you that the moving parts of an app like this is probably not something that most of you have seen before. 4.8M lines of code – managed across our team and our partner teams that we rely so heavily upon. I can tell you that it’s a WHOLE lot more than just some anecdotal feedback on bugs in determining the dates we promise to our 50,000 + enterprise customers. Remember – we PLAN on finding bugs in the release process.

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