Sorry for the late status post - last Friday was quite a rush. We entered last week with ~50 Beta2 bugs. We've had this number for the past two weeks, so Jay and I decided to start beating the drums to get our counts down. Teams rose to the challenge...

I was sick all last week, so this week started slowly for me as I fought fatigue and an onslaught of bugs and process issues. Our fix rates have definitely slowed this week, as we've only started accepting bugs that have a large customer impact are rigourously...

I was sick all of last week and am still recovering from the flu. My blogging slacked off a bit, but now back at work I slowly feel the need to communicate about our bugs and status again. Today we were faced with an interesting bug. Its little known...

Our shut down of Whidbey Beta2 continued this week, with ask mode beginning last Monday. Jay, Kartik and I began holding a "ship-room" meeting twice a day, where teams came in with their bugs and justified fixing them. This slowed down our bug fixes,...