Henry, I tend to disagree with that, in my opinion it's worse to lose a prospect client because we do not show commitment, then state the reason for why the release is being delayed. A good case of that is VS2010, MS has delayed it's release, and provided us with good reasons why.
I didn't say that we have to commit to a set in stone release date, we all know that is very hard to do, but if we keep the release dates up to date and even if we change them we communicate the reason why it has to delayed or brought forward, I think that is good client interaction. Cheers John On Jan 23, 3:21 pm, Henry Conceição <[email protected]> wrote: > If we set a deadline and don't meet her, it'll be worst, since we'll > be disappointing the users and ourselves. > > And people can feel cheated by a release date that always is pushed to > some point in the future. If we had set a date for Monorail after the > last RC, probably we would be know by the Duke Nuke Forever of the > .Net plataform. > > Cheers, > Henry Conceição > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:27 AM, John Simons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm afraid that TBD is still very infinite. > > > Cheers > > John > > > On Jan 23, 2:18 pm, Henry Conceição <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yeah, I had the same feeling. So i changed the major projects fpr TBD > >> instead none planning earlier today. > > >> Cheers, > >> Henry Conceição > > >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:39 PM, John Simons > > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I have been on a course for the last week and I got some feedback from > >> > one of the attendees about the term we use on the projects web page > >> > (http://www.castleproject.org/castle/projects.html) - "None > >> > planned". > > >> > His advice was that if we say "None planned" it feels like the project > >> > is not active! > >> > So, I was thinking of changing it to be something a bit more > >> > optimistic, such as "Coming soon" or "TBA", but all these terms are > >> > very indefinite, so I actually think we should use terms like "First > >> > quarter of 2010" or "March 2010". > > >> > Thoughts? > > >> > Cheers > >> > John > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups "Castle Project Development List" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to > >> > [email protected]. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > [email protected]. > >> > For more options, visit this group > >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Castle Project Development List" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Development List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en.
