Joel Test Updated 182
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from the inspect-the-width-of-the-coal-chute dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In 2000, Joel Spolsky wrote the Joel Test, an excellent and simple way to evaluate a software company. While the test is still used, it's getting outdated, as many companies are moving to web technologies, and new development tools exist. In his blog, Marc Garcia wrote about what could be an update to Joel Test."
Re:Who is this guy? (Score:4, Informative)
Joel Spolski is a guy who runs a software company, and he used to be a program manager on Excel. However that's not why people give a shit about what he thinks. People read (past tense) his articles because they were pretty good, and explained stuff lots of people in the software business need to know but often don't. For instance if somebody doesn't understand Unicode, I often point them to his article explaining it .... because he did a pretty good job.
The real question is, who is Marc Garcia and why does the article submitter think we should care? In fairness, he says the "updated list" is just his personal opinion rather than something generally applicable, which is good because pretty much every software company I know would fail at least one or two of the points on there, including Google.
Re:Users reporting bugs directly (Score:4, Informative)
Unless your users are professional developers/programmers, the signal to noise ratio is going to be horrid.
Re:A serious question (Score:2, Informative)
Why should I care about distributed source code control in a monolithic commercial development environment?
Aaahhh.. haven't you learned by now that being able to divide concepts recursively is generally a Good Thing (tm)?
Even a monolithic company consists of different workgroups, and the developers in those groups may want to work remotely on some stuff, e.g., when they are on a trip. If it would cost them too much pain to merge in their changes when they're back home, do you think these developers would be thrilled to do said work when they're away?
Re:Grammar test fail (Score:2, Informative)