Scott Guthrie has an interesting insight into the software management processes at Microsoft for the Whidbey team. http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2004/10/23/246709.aspx. Some points I picked up on:
My team currently has 102,000 test cases which test 505,000 different test scenarios
Zero Bug Bounce: a point in time when we have no bugs older than 48 hours in a given milestone
Tell Mode: teams within our division are still given discretion to fix any bugs they want – they just need to be prepared to present and explain why they choose the ones they did to the central division ship room.
Ask Mode, teams within our division then need to ask permission of our central ship room committee before making a checkin
Worth a read...
posted @ Monday, October 25, 2004 1:13 PM