{"id":216,"date":"2006-10-31T20:07:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T04:07:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:32","slug":"two-week-code-pushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/10\/two-week-code-pushes","title":{"rendered":"Two Week Code Pushes: Fast or Slow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/10\/31\/vox-says-theres-still-room-for-more-and-better-social-networking-an-interview-with-sixaparts-andrew-anker\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch interview with Andrew Anker<\/a> of Six Apart about their excellent new service, Vox.  It&#8217;s a nicely conducted interview about a well-designed product that I think will be very successful, but this line struck me as a bit odd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Very early on in Vox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s development, we created a two week rapid iteration cycle where we made sure to push code religiously every two weeks. By doing that, we made sure that we were building a design cycle that was always two weeks away from fixing any problem.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do bi-weekly code pushes qualify as &#8220;rapid&#8221; these days?  Even at <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a>, we generally didn&#8217;t take much longer than that, and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsvine.com\" target=\"_blank\">Newsvine<\/a> we push every single day.  Multiple times even.  We like the rapid pushes so much, in fact, that we even set up a machine to triumphantly speak out the filepath whenever someone pushes out code: <a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/cpj.mp3\">click for a sample<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m impatient about site improvement and problem solving, but Andrew&#8217;s statement &#8212; if it were applied to me &#8212; would advocate a deliberate <em>slowing down<\/em> of the push cycle (perhaps for the better).<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else agree?  With web technologies the way they are today, do you consider religious code pushes every two weeks a <em>fast<\/em> thing or a <em>slow<\/em> thing?  Are scheduled infrequent pushes (meaning, much less than once a day) preferable to your development habits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading a TechCrunch interview with Andrew Anker of Six Apart about their excellent new service, Vox. It&#8217;s a nicely conducted interview about a well-designed product that I think will be very successful, but this line struck me as a bit odd: &#8220;Very early on in Vox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s development, we created a two week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}