We're a bunch of Geeks

Here is a recent IRC conversation we had at work. The names have been changed to protect privacy and all that - except mine - 'cause I approve.

[joe] so frank, any news on your brothers baby? has his wife delivered?

[frank] I have not heard any today

[padme] support had their baby... come on engineers, step up

[benji] i'm still in the design phase for my baby

[padme] i'm still requirements gathering ;o)

[padme] doing my competitive analysis

[brandon]we're in agile development right now

[bob] maintenance phase

[joe] sometimes you have to rush out a prototype

[frank] I've completed my final version. We sorta killed all the little engineers so we won't be producing any other versions, sorry :(

[benji] brandon, lol

[james] i scrapped the project

[don] my funds got cut

[don] heh j/k

[gil] don't you just hate it when your funds get cut!

[brandon]don - better than your tools getting cut

[don] or put on a freeze

[benji] i actually added the baby project to redmine (my local proj mgmt system)

* benji checks the gantt chart

[padme] not practicing release early, release often here

[frank] I'm having enough problems maintaining my current releases

[padme] hard to maintain different versions at the same time

[frank] I hope to make them self sustaining as soon as possible

[don] I hope obama will help reduce support costs

[padme] hopefully he doesn't come through on that end of life policy

[don] heh

[don] some versions you just have to keep supporting regardless the costscosts