Comments on: Scott Diedrick – Profiles in Courage – RedMonk Radio 058 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/03/30/redmonkradio058/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Thu, 24 May 2012 14:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mike Lunt http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/03/30/redmonkradio058/comment-page-1/#comment-309821 Mike Lunt Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:17:30 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2009/03/30/redmonkradio058/#comment-309821 Nice recording... I almost cried when I thought Scott was saying they went from 2 week to 1 month iterations to tackle big features, but instead, the Mumboe team holds true to the "stay releasable" concept and continues with the 2 week iterations. One interesting point on the use of interpreted languages in this context is that they provide a lot of the same benefit that SaaS products provide in terms of giving customers patches sooner. With Ruby and Python COTS, support people can often apply a fix on the customer's box (or the hosted server in the case of SaaS) with very little risk. Granted, I'm mixing languages and delivery mechanisms, but the point is that COTS products based on compiled languages often lose the patching battle because it's so hard to deliver a low-risk fix. ...end of rambling. :-) Nice recording… I almost cried when I thought Scott was saying they went from 2 week to 1 month iterations to tackle big features, but instead, the Mumboe team holds true to the "stay releasable" concept and continues with the 2 week iterations.

One interesting point on the use of interpreted languages in this context is that they provide a lot of the same benefit that SaaS products provide in terms of giving customers patches sooner. With Ruby and Python COTS, support people can often apply a fix on the customer's box (or the hosted server in the case of SaaS) with very little risk. Granted, I'm mixing languages and delivery mechanisms, but the point is that COTS products based on compiled languages often lose the patching battle because it's so hard to deliver a low-risk fix.

…end of rambling. :-)

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