In part five of a series of interviews at Artima Developer, Erich Gamma talks about Eclipse's culture of shipping software. He talks about six week milestones, transparent planning, constantly "eating your own dog food", and the controlled end game. This is all very familiar. It is almost identical to the Notes development culture at Iris Associates.
There are at least two important differences. Notes release cycles were historically much longer than those of Eclipse. And Notes never was an open source project. However, these differences just highlight the importance of the common themes. If I had to pick one, I'd say the most important is "eat your own dog food". There are lots of different strategies for quality assurance. Nothing compares with running your business on the product you are building.
(via Jeff Atwood, at Coding Horror)
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