Fog Creek of 2012 was a pretty different company from the Fog Creek in the early 2000s. While Joel was still technically in charge he had mostly delegated responsibities and spent almost all of his time working on Stack Overflow.
replyBut was "early Joel" FogBugz any good? I heard that it wasn't from somebody who tried it. That unsuccessful trial was also the only time I heard of anyone using it.
replyWaaay back in 2007ish I got Fogbugz for the small 3-man IT team that we were. As a small team hacking away on an internal ERP and minimal other apps, it was actually refreshing. In my prior role I'd used BugZilla and it was ok, but Fogbugz seemed pretty sweet for a small team. I've now been plodding away with Jira for many years and it's just feature-bloated slowness I'd go back to FogBugz in a jiffy.
replyI religiously read Joel’s books - I think it made me a great Junior / Mid Engineer - sad to hear the failures.
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