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What happens when your product is not stable close to release date ? – Part 6




This is a series of short posts about the scenario where a product that decides the future of the company is being released, and how it can be difficult to make a decision about release vs. delay when there are suspicions that the quality of the product may not be as desired. In the previous [...]



What happens when your product is not stable close to release date ? – Part 5




This is a series of posts which talk about decision time when a major product such as Microsoft Office is near release, and the product is not yet stable (which means that the team that should sign off the release is uncomfortable with the current quality levels of the application). The release being on schedule [...]



What happens when your product is not stable close to release date ? – Part 4




In this series, I have been writing about the problems that arise when a product (deemed very significant for the organization) are near release. In the last post (deferral of bugs near the release date), I talked about the rate of deferral of bugs in the end game, and how this time of the schedule [...]



What happens when your product is not stable close to release date ? – Part 3




In the previous post in this series (Getting advice from the team about status), I talked about the importance of making sure that feedback from the team is not crushed, and that people are not put in a position where they feel that they are doing something against the organization when they report status that [...]