Joel was one of the very first content marketing geniuses in the Software space. This post was designed to sell FogBugz, which at the time, was a stand alone Wi

Joel was one of the very first content marketing geniuses in the Software space. This post was designed to sell FogBugz, which at the time, was a stand alone Windows application that could charitably be described as "not as good as BugZilla". Its interesting to note that other software development methods such as Agile do not mandate the use of things like source control, issue tracking and CI, and therefore make it very possible to set up completely dysfunctional development teams. Refreshingly, the "Schedules" point is in complete opposition to Agile. The Joel Test is an actual thing that you can use to make your software development run more smoothly. There is also a more important point to be made about the Joel Test. While most software development method"ologies" seek to subtly shame, juniorify and undermine developers, Joel's writing seeks to understand, validate and empower them. For this alone he was ahead of his time, and he deserves a lot of credit for the pieces he wrote in the early 00s.