Using Java even more... (Writing an EBS in Java)

Over at the office, we tend to do a fairly good job setting our scope and ship dates for products, but our process is no where near perfect. A while back, it might have been on a Stack Overflow podcast, Joel Spolsky described the Evidence Based Scheduling feature of their FogBugz product. Since then, it has always been in the back of my mind as a project I would like to do (we even had a interviewee who had implemented it in C#/.Net). After reading about the changes they made to the algorithm in the latest FogBugz, I got the itch again.

I decided fairly early on that I was going to do this in Java (although I drew up the prototype in Django, so there!), so not only do I get to tackle something new and exciting, I get to do it twice over (doing Java web stuffs). So far, I started a project with struts2-archetype-blank (archetype is NOT the same as archtype), and read some stuff about Struts. I have all of the other documentation done, so now it is just a matter of pouring time into it.

Wish me luck!

Posted 25 Jul 2009