Hi Ingmar,
Well I had forgotten you spoke French. Thanks for taking the time to go through this text.
Yes, subject of roadmap is regularly discussed in the forums but I have yet to see an official one…
Judging from Rick Ellis post http://ellislab.com/blog/the_planning_fallacy/ dated last March, assume we’ll never get one.
“To explain why we at EllisLab never publish a software release date until we are nearly finished with the project. In my experience, any date that is more then 30 days out will always be wrong.
That’s also why we don’t publish a road map that describes where we’re going with our applications. There is such a fluid and dynamic nature to technology that anything we plan for today will probably be irrelevant a year from now. We just do not have enough information today to plan correctly for tomorrow. Our development cycles, and the internet at large, are moving too fast.”
Having covered the IT market for 20 years+, I’m quite aware that software projects are difficult to plan and often miss the projected deadline. However, some companies now are using new methodologies which have helped them reduce the gap quite effectively.
I’m far less convinced by the last argument Rick Ellis produced. Would he have us believe that the development team works without knowing where it’s going and what’s it’s aiming at? Very much doubt it.
But for sure, he doesn’t want to communicate about it and prefers to leave his clients in the dark.