{"id":670,"date":"2007-10-22T00:11:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T00:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2007-10-22T00:11:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T00:11:11","slug":"introducing-fogbugz-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2007\/10\/22\/introducing-fogbugz-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing FogBugz 6.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

At some point, while I was running around the country giving demos of FogBugz 6.0<\/a>, the development team officially got it out the door, and I don’t think I ever officially announced, “FogBugz 6.0 is now shipping,” so, here it <\/a>is:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

FogBugz 6.0 is now shipping!<\/p>\n

It has a ton<\/a> of major new features: an integrated Wiki, an API, a completely overhauled search engine, and lots of Ajax to make things really snappy.<\/p>\n

Probably the most interesting part of 6.0 is Evidence-Based Scheduling<\/a>, which uses a statistical technique called bootstrapping (a variation on Monte Carlo) to determine the probability that you’ll ship on any given date. EBS is interesting enough that I’ll devote a whole article to explaining it as soon as I get a minute of free time. Briefly, with EBS, you estimate features as usual. But then, instead of adding up everyone’s estimates\u2014instead of taking them on faith\u2014FogBugz does a Monte Carlo simulation looking at what speeds developers worked at in the past, vis-\u00e0-vis their estimates. You use that same distribution of probabilities that you had in the past and run a simulation of 60 futures each of which will occur with equal probability. What you get, instead of a date, is a probability distribution curve that shows the probability that the product will ship on such-and-such a date:<\/p>\n

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The introductory price is a terrific deal, and it’s only good until November 1st. For example, a ten-pack is only $999 instead of $1899. If you sign up for the On Demand<\/a> version, you can lock in a rate of $21\/user\/month instead of $25. Go make yourself a free online trial<\/a>, what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At some point, while I was running around the country giving demos of FogBugz 6.0, the development team officially got it out the door, and I don’t… Read more “Introducing FogBugz 6.0”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83KNI-aO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}