I can't believe it is Friday. The last 10 days have been pretty crazy around here. I can't recall a week that I worked as much as I did this week on Sampa. Yesterday I put a bit more than 16 hours of work.
When I worked at Microsoft things like that would happen 3-4 times a year, but at Sampa it never happens because we have a steady development pace.
We prefer to have a constant stream of releases by launching new features 1-3 times per week, versus going trough a traditional development cycle that can take months to show progress.
The pros of that approach is that you don't have to wait for a "train" to ship something cool. If it is cool and it is worth doing for the customers and for the business, just get it done and get it out there. Sometimes, we pause some feature development to work on something else that might be more interesting.
That is what just happened last week. We had an idea for a great product. A revolutionary product. So, we stopped all feature development for Sampa and started working on this new product. We will have a beta of it shortly, and for now that is all that I can say.
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January, 2008