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Why did we not deliver VS2005 Beta 2 end of March?

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In software development, there is the "triangle" that teams have to navigate through while shipping a product – the triangle of quality, features and time to market. There are always trade-offs to make but in my mind if push comes to shove quality wins hand over fist. I always tell people that 2 years from now, nobody (well almost nobody) will remember the exact date we shipped a product, but people will absolutely remember whether it was a quality product or not. At the same time, I also understand the need for us to be more predictable in software delivery because our customers and partners rely on us and take a bet on us delivering our technologies and products in a predictable schedule.

We originally planned for delivering Beta 2 by the end of March 2005. However, we ended up holding Beta 2 for a few weeks because we wanted to get to the right level of quality for this Beta 2 release to enable go-live license and production deployments of applications built on Visual Studio 2005 Beta2. We had very high stress goals across the various components. Stress tests are primarily designed to time-compress and simulate customer workloads into a relatively shorter amount of period to ensure that the system can withstand what you would see typically in a customer situation over a long period of time. We wanted to stay firm on meeting the stress goals to ensure that this is the highest quality beta that we have ever shipped.

We also did something for the first time with Beta 2 where we involved a number of our TAP (Technology Adoption Partner or early adopter) customers to actually sign-off on Beta 2 before we would release. This was quite a valuable exercise. We provided early drops of Beta 2 to these customers who gave us valuable feedback. We actually ended up finding and fixing a couple of issues and finally we got 100% sign-off from the TAP customers who participated in this. Our plan for RTM is to absolutely have an expanded set of TAP customers to sign-off on the product before we ship.

I know that we are a couple of weeks behind where we wanted to be. But I feel really good that we held Beta 2 for a little longer for the right quality reasons.

Namaste!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 18, 2005
    In case this is your only source of information off of MSDN (yeah right) or you haven't seen the great...

  • Anonymous
    April 18, 2005
    By now hopefully you've seen that beta 2 has shipped.  There are several interesting links:

    You...

  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2005
    Great article on on why we didn't deliver  Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 by end of March. Soma, VP of...

  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2005
    Love the new look on this blog site. Can you share the custoem style sheet for the blog skin?

    George, MSDN Webcasts

  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2005
    Hi George,

    I used the "PoisonIvy - Water" theme to get this new look for my blog site. This is one of the options that you can use to configure your blog site.

    - somasegar

  • Anonymous
    April 25, 2005
    Visual Studio Team System
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    September 06, 2007
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    September 09, 2007
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    April 13, 2009
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