You are the project manager in charge of developing the latest release of your s

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You are the project manager in charge of developing the latest release of your software firm’s flagship product. The product release date is just two weeks away, and enthusiasm for the product is extremely high among your customers. Stock market analysts are forecasting sales of more than $25 million per month. If so, earnings per share will increase by nearly 50 percent. There is just one problem: two key features promised to customers in this release have several bugs that would severely limit the software’s usefulness. You estimate that at least six weeks are needed to find and fix the problems. In addition, even more time is required to find and fix 15 additional, less severe bugs just uncovered by the QA team. What would you recommend to management?

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As these features are are new, the end users have limited knowledge on it and so the best thing to do is fix as many bugs as possible within two weeks so that the two new features should atleast make a representation as it is working fine to the end users and release it and the other thing is demonstration of the product should be clear by covering the bugs. At first end user may have a plain feeling towards the product but i feel that there may be no loss and finally announce that the second release would be in 10 weeks time so that you can fix those bugs in 6 weeks and work on new features in other 4 weeks

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