Apple recently announced the next major version of their operation system, called “Snow Leopard”. The interesting thing about it is, that it doesn’t introduce new features, but only changes the technology behind. And it looks like Apple expects people to pay for this. I hope this sets a precedent, like many other innovations from Apple before: Give the developers the time (a whole year!) to improve the technology. And then start to add new things again.
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Just read this bit about Microsoft:
“After the team has worked hard to complete a release, the members are rewarded with a couple of months in which they are allowed to clean up the underlying structures of the code that bothered them most while working on the release” (Lean Software Development – An Agile Toolkit, Mary & Tom Poppendieck, p.142)
Not sure whether every developer would agree that cleaning up is a reward (and not a punishment) but I definitely do.