Comments on: Thoughts on the Beta culture http://smcpros.com/2009/12/17/thoughts-on-the-beta-culture/ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:13:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tim Barsness http://smcpros.com/2009/12/17/thoughts-on-the-beta-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Tim Barsness Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:03:17 +0000 http://smcpros.com/?p=616#comment-260 Hasn't software always been improved iteratively? Calling something a beta doesn't mean what it meant back in the day. On a medium sized software package you would see one or two alpha releases, one or two beta releases and then a final release. Now, you could see hundreds of iterations while in beta. This agile methodology is testament to how connected our lives are now--how much easier it is to push updates live. Don't believe what you see; the term beta is a cop-out in case something goes wrong. Hasn’t software always been improved iteratively? Calling something a beta doesn’t mean what it meant back in the day. On a medium sized software package you would see one or two alpha releases, one or two beta releases and then a final release. Now, you could see hundreds of iterations while in beta. This agile methodology is testament to how connected our lives are now–how much easier it is to push updates live.

Don’t believe what you see; the term beta is a cop-out in case something goes wrong.

]]> By: Thoughts on Beta culture | Mitchell Hislop http://smcpros.com/2009/12/17/thoughts-on-the-beta-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Thoughts on Beta culture | Mitchell Hislop Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:16:00 +0000 http://smcpros.com/?p=616#comment-251 [...] did a post on beta culture a while back. I re-vamped some of my thoughts, and re-posted it on the SMCpros blog. Worth a read and a chat. [...] [...] did a post on beta culture a while back. I re-vamped some of my thoughts, and re-posted it on the SMCpros blog. Worth a read and a chat. [...]

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