Joel Spolsky has been on a marketing tear this year. He released a new book (Sorry, didn’t like it), been on IT Conversations, in ACM Queue and most recently on a World Tour showing off FogBugz 6.0. I missed the Toronto event due to a family commitment, but was able to see the Dog ‘n Pony show they recorded in Austin, TX a couple weeks later. Here are the notes I would have taken in Toronto.

• Wow, FogBugz is pretty cool. Of course, the person who owns the product is doing the demo, but…
• Estimates are everything, especially since the driving feature of the new version is EBS (Estimate Based Scheduling)
• Bugs reported are often unnaturally capped due to people limits in QA departments
• The MS Project team doesn’t use MS Project to track their schedules
• I like it when people point out scenarios where their product won’t work as well as a competitor.
• Software Development should be just one line in the project plan
• If something doesn’t work, degrade gracefully
• There were 3, maybe 4 women in the audience
• try.fogbugz.com for a trial copy

I tried to embed the video, but for whatever reason it wasn’t working. So here is the link to the video.