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		thundergolfer 73 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs This is the 'Zero Defects'[1] mode of development. A Microsoft department adopted it in 1989 after their product quality dropped. (Balmer is cc'd on the memo.) 1. https://sriramk.com/memos/zerodef.pdf

waste_monk 73 days ago [–]

As opposed to the current 100% defects approach they seem to have adopted.

tonyedgecombe 73 days ago | [–]

Balmer is no longer there :)

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