andyson:There are too many "non-critical" errors in the latest release. Many of those errors are so obvious they should have been identified much earlier in development.
Indeed, they are that obvious, which immediately raises my suspicions. Something is different enough between the live environment and testing environment(s) to cause these issues. You and I both know they didn't send this update live knowing the cameras were even worse than before. This deploy worked in the testing environment. They wouldn't have pushed it otherwise.
andyson: Personally I like something along the lines of "new changes will not affect existing functionality" because customers don't like it.
Agreed. Regression errors are for the birds.
andyson: I'd vote that both the CC improvements and New Camera Views features would be low priority [....]
True. However you also know that development doesn't stop if you finish 3 days early. It's more like, "Oh, we got three days? What small stuff can we squeeze in and get tested with minimal risk?" Thus, you end up with things that appear incorrectly prioritized, but it's more about good time-management. It was either those small things got in, or nothing.
andyson: And those non-critical problems never show up in the Release criterial.
I find that they tend to be taken care of without much fanfare. I've found myself frequently saying, "Oh, I see they fixed that." The small stuff like that kinda gets lumped into the "various bugs fixes" category. I don't believe they have an obligation to tell us every single minor or trivial adjustment they make in that category.
andyson: The bottom line is its not all about Schedule & Quality, Content has to be part of the decision making process.
Agree. But again, we both know that many of those schedule vs quality decisions have to be made at the 11th hour as everything either comes together or doesn't, and many times you're getting a "lesser of two evils" choice. This is one of the flaws in Agile imo. Or perhaps the result of its flawed execution.
You better hope it all comes together at the end, else your schedule is in serious trouble and/or you're working a lot of free overtime.