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#6039
do you know that any software is buggy? and any software version is buggy? and there is a quote saying something like 'any bug considered as last bug in application becomes penultimate'.
The truth is that any company trying to fix everything will never release a version. most successfull companies do frequent major/minor releases, patches, hotfixes etc. That provides immediate value. There is a lean approach called Just Enough and Just in Time and looks like Nokia is doing really bad release management. They are trying to goldplate the pr, and that's stupid. they could safe a lot of money doing betas and releasing them to community what would be helpful for the regression phases, fix all criticals/majors and release with some minors. after a month do one more release. This is what is called agile and this was what I expect from company using agile methodology and Scrum. There is even pretty famous Nokia Scrum Test and one of question is 'Is the software completely tested and working at the end of an iteration?' And this is basic level of being really agile. Nokia is not! Nokia does not have potentially shipable product at the end of an iteration. and that sucks.