Name Your Milestones

In this interview with the guys behind Hydra they explain how naming their milestones helped motivate them:

“As the project matured, submitting to the Apple Design Awards became an important goal, providing us with a fixed deadline for release. On our way to that deadline we did some sort of micro-milestoning. Every week we set up a set of action items for a specific milestone that was reviewed in an end-of-the-week meeting that also set the objectives for the next week. Internal milestones were named after cities on the way from Munich, where we are based, to Cupertino. This turned out to be a very productive and motivating process.”

Nice idea. Hydra looks like a cool app, I’ve been thinking about collaborative editors for a while now. Pity I don’t have a Mac…