FogBugz World Tour

• REVERT TO CONSOLE » Blog Archive » Joel Spolsky at the FogBugz World Tour 2007 in Boston
  

  "If Steve jobs is a master of presenting new Hardware Product Demos, I think Joel is the equivalent in Software."
  

• FogBugz is Developer-Driven (Thank Goodness) - Blog - UserDriven.org - About Product Development
  

  "The software includes bug and enhancement tracking features like those in Bugzilla with a wiki for managing requirements, discussion boards for you and your customer, and project management software that uses your developers estimates and (critically) your developers historical accuracy at estimating. It wraps these features together in one of the smoothest, lowest-effort Ajax UIs I've seen to produce a suite of tools for managing the software development process."
  

• Ramble : Joel Spolsky in Philadelphia
  

  "Joel gave a great demo on the new FogBugz 6.0 features. It was a lot of fun. Meeting Joel, as my co-worker put it, is like meeting a programming rock star. Does that make me a groupie?"
  

• Radiant Core: Blog: Joel Spolsky Eats Dog Food
  

  "They key is that you have to eat your own dog food. We talked the talk a lot but we weren't really Database Administrators (DBAs) so much as we were a bunch of Human Factors Specialii trying to penetrate the remarkably High Priest like mentality of the people who manage the incomprehensibly large databases that run our lives. When I needed to try something in DB2, I started it up on my laptop and did something in the GUI and then puzzled about why our users wouldn't just do the same, but I also didn't do that task a hundred times a day every day or else I would have written a handy CLUI macro I could invoke in two keystrokes. Joel and the good folks at Fog Creek Software get that, which is why FogBUGZ is such a fantastic piece of software."
  

• FogBugz World Tour in Toronto » halostatue
  

  "Case entry and management is insanely simple. There are no required fields (which will, of course, bother some people), but it makes adding cases (which are tasks, bugs, and even support requests) dead simple. There’s no implicit dependency tracking, but you can easily link two cases together simply by adding a note (e.g., “waiting for case 72″) and FogBugz automatically provides a link between them. One clones bugs the same way. There’s good SCM integration into FogBugz (including for Perforce), and there’s even a VisualStudio plug-in for task/case management."
  

• Yet Another Sysadmin's Blog: FogBugz World Tour Results
  

  "Based on the demo, it's a good looking application. I didn't even talk about the evidence based scheduler or doing project management with it. In the end, I'd say check out the software."
  

• FogBugz Road Trip 2007 - Gold Plated Blog Posts
  

  "Hearing Joel talk was a good experience, I learned a lot from the talk, and FogBugz 6.0 looks pretty impressive. After he was finished, I waited around and talked to one of the programmers, Brett, about working at Fog Creek. He seems really happy there and I hope to get Adaptavant to the point where programmers are this content with their jobs. In fact, one of the reasons I went was to try to find out what the secret is. I don't know that I necessarily found it, but Joel and Brett both provided some good clues."
  

• How Joel Spolsky is Like Steve Jobs
  

  "Joel also makes a point out of the fact that bug tracking software should not be used by HR departments to judge the performance of anyone, much less the developers. He calls this, “using Fogbugz for opression” and swears that he would rather companies use some other product than associate Fogbugz with such bad form."
  

• Mambo Taxi - Cool Stuff
  

  "Bug-tracking is one of five tasks it tries to do well and in a novel way. The most surprising of these: along with its sophisticated-looking project-management tools, it does scary magic to turn programmers' predictions of task completions into a probability of shipping on a given date, and he even used words like "confidence distributions" and "Monte Carlo simulations" to make it sound legit. Maybe it is legit."
  

• 47 Hats - FogBugz Puts an End to Faith Based Developing
  

  "They can see - really honestly see - just when a project or a major version is going to be done, regardless of whatever development methodology or lack thereof they are using, whether they’re developing an app for desktops or the web, regardless of programming language."

• TMI - FogBugz 6.0 Stunning
  

  "I went to Joel's demo of FogBugz 6.0 this morning. I have to say that Ben, the engineer in charge of UI, has done some spectacular work. This is the most usable web-app that I have ever seen. It seems every bit as interactive as a good old Windows application. Congrats to Ben, Joel, and the whole FogBugz team."

• Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard - "Evidence Based Software Schedulin a la FogBugz"
  

  "I’d paid little attention to the evolution of this product — Salon’s team long ago chose the open-source Trac, OSAF used Bugzilla, and when I first looked over FogBugz ages ago it looked like a perfectly serviceable Windows-based bug-tracking tool, no more.

  Well, in the intervening time, the thing has gone totally Web-based and AJAX-ified, and it’s pretty cool just on those terms. It’s also grown a wiki and become more of a full-product-lifecycle project management tool, with integration for stuff like customer service ticket management."

• Orange is my Favorite Color - FogBugz Tour in .... Sunnyvale
  

  "The slides were (really) short and sweet; he spent most of the time demoing FogBugz and it has a number of really smart features. The estimate-based scheduling is a very unique look at how engineering really gets done. He’s certainly one of the best designer-engineers out there making software."