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On 12/13/2017 4:20 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Is the "rush" at the end of the cycle still a thing those days ? From a
> release management perspective it felt like the pressure was reduced in
> recent cycles, with less and less FFEs. But that may be that PTLs have
> gotten better at denying them, not that the pressure is reduced now that
> we are past the hype peak...

Yes and no. Nova has tried different tricks in the past like a 
non-priority feature freeze at the 2nd milestone, then we just work on 
the priorities (agreed to at the design summit, when that was a thing) 
in the 3rd milestone. We stopped doing that in Ocata because it was a 
shorter cycle and because of other complications with that process, like 
we'd spend a lot of time in the first milestone doing spec reviews and 
design discussion, then rushing to get non-priority stuff done in the 
second milestone, and then we'd be burned out by the third milestone to 
actually focus on priorities - which is the opposite of what we should 
be doing.

I feel like there is still the normal pressure to please everyone in 
recent releases, that's never going to change, it's never going to be 
"done", but I do feel like we make steady progress and get enough 
non-priority things done at the same time.

I think we'll always have a kind of rush toward the end for the big 
complicated things we're working on, because of unexpected things that 
come up during implementation. That's part of the reason I think moving 
the release out won't help with that unless we can be super disciplined 
as a project about doing intermediate releases, even if we know people 
aren't picking them up, just so that we have a goal/deadline to work 
toward rather than say, "meh, we've got 9 months to crank this out, it 
can wait."

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Thanks,

Matt