bugwallIf we had fewer users it would be a lot easier to innovate!  I mean puleeze - get out of our way already.  Can’t you see we’re trying to build something really cool…for our…users.  Hmm.

The paradox of product development: balancing the efforts maintaining and incrementally enhancing the released stuff while continuing to evolve and innovate in a dynamic and evolving market.  Its no easy task to be sure and takes equal amounts of judgment and science.

Our dev team recently completed a sprint where we knocked off a serious pile of issues for released code.  During the same sprint we added significant functionality for our upcoming release.  It was a great example of striking this balance - and a display of some serious productivity.

Special thanks to Andrew and Melanie for keeping us on the the line:

I keep a close watch on these bugs of mine
I keep my backlog open all the time
I keep the yellow stickies for the code that grinds
Because you whine, we walk the line

[Note from Melle: The song stylings expressed in the preceding lyrical snippet do not reflect the opinions of AideRSS, Inc. towards its community, and are merely a function of maintaining rhyming pattern. Besides, the devs here whine way more than anybody else.] :)