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Product Development - Rolling out the patch

Filed Under Patch, Issues, Development | Posted on September 28, 2008

The previous post had thoughts on what are some of the conditions under which a software patch is typically required. Once the decision has been made to make a patch, there are a set of activities that are needed to be done. A patch typically is a miniature version of a complete product development cycle, […]

Product Development - Doing a patcher or a minor release

Filed Under Minor Release, Patch, Product, Development | Posted on September 25, 2008

When doing the planning for a new version of the product (not typically applicable when creating a new product), it sometimes becomes necessary to consider the case of doing a patcher or a minor release (also known as dot release).
Picture this scenario - your product development team has already started planning for the features that […]