{"id":677,"date":"2007-10-29T00:11:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2007-10-29T00:11:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T00:11:18","slug":"some-feedback-on-ebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2007\/10\/29\/some-feedback-on-ebs\/","title":{"rendered":"Some feedback on EBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/000981.html\">Jeff Atwood<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s a tremendous credit to Joel Spolsky that he made this crucial feature the centerpiece of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcreek.com\/FogBugz\/\">new FogBugz<\/a>. I&#8217;m not aware of any other software lifecycle tools that go to such great lengths to help you produce good estimates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc3.org\/2007\/10\/evidencebased-s.php\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 5px\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/29soccer.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Rafe Colburn<\/a>: &#8220;We\u2019re rolling out FogBugz 6.0 at work, and I\u2019m finding that I actually like the time tracking. For one thing, it\u2019s a tool for focus. When you kick off the timer on a task, you don\u2019t want to jump around and multitask because it will just throw off the timer. The timer feature itself is pretty easy to use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordyard.com\/2007\/10\/11\/evidence-based-scheduling\/\">Scott Rosenberg<\/a>: &#8220;What&#8217;s most interesting about the new FogBugz is what Spolsky and his team are calling &#8216;Evidence Based Scheduling&#8230;&#8217;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.raganwald.com\/2007\/10\/shipping-news.html\">Reg Braithwaite<\/a>: &#8220;I built a prototype that did the exact thing that FogBugz is doing quite some time ago. However, prototypes are not shipping products. FogBugz is a shipping product. My prototype was not. And that makes <em>all<\/em> the difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also: I wrote an earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stickyminds.com\/BetterSoftware\/magazine.asp?fn=cifea&amp;id=94\">article describing Evidence-Based Scheduling<\/a>, which was in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stickyminds.com\/BetterSoftware\/magazine.asp\">Better Software Magazine<\/a> last March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood: &#8220;It&#8217;s a tremendous credit to Joel Spolsky that he made this crucial feature the centerpiece of the new FogBugz. I&#8217;m not aware of any other&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2007\/10\/29\/some-feedback-on-ebs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Some feedback on EBS&#8221;<\/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-677","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-aV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}