Swap managers with the one in charge of the Outdoor Recreation series for a month. Lengthen sprints from a week to two weeks. Set up a proper alpha/beta programme, where more than late Release Candidates are released. You have willing testers out there. Let them find those bugs early. Lengthen the time between RC release to full release from one week to three, to allow for more bug reports to be collected and acted upon. There is no way that a week is long enough for this. Encourage adversarial code review between developers and allow enough time for this. Build in Unit tests to catch regressions before they're checked in to production. Code coverage should be 85% or better. Run the code through static analysis tools. This will probably find some memory leaks, null pointer dereferences, and other undesirable behaviours. Fix them. Constructive criticisms in replies only please.

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Suggestions to the Forerunner development team

5994630 over 2 years ago

Swap managers with the one in charge of the Outdoor Recreation series for a month.
Lengthen sprints from a week to two weeks.
Set up a proper alpha/beta programme, where more than late Release Candidates are released. You have willing testers out there. Let them find those bugs early.
Lengthen the time between RC release to full release from one week to three, to allow for more bug reports to be collected and acted upon. There is no way that a week is long enough for this.
Encourage adversarial code review between developers and allow enough time for this.
Build in Unit tests to catch regressions before they're checked in to production. Code coverage should be 85% or better.
Run the code through static analysis tools. This will probably find some memory leaks, null pointer dereferences, and other undesirable behaviours. Fix them.

Constructive criticisms in replies only please.

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7955775 over 2 years ago +5

I contacted Ray about the issue and he answered to his 955 solar review: Here is the comment link for my reply: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/garmin-forerunner-955-solar-review.html/comment-page-2#comment…
Jano22222 over 2 years ago in reply to kalamarios +4

What surprise me is that DC Rainmaker who always is the first to review new products from Garmin and obvious get them for testing long time before the release is superquiet when it come to all the software…
Elbo over 2 years ago in reply to Jano22222 +4

Well, he did blog about is once: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/06/competitor-software-instability.html

But I agree with you that he is quite good at summing up the featurelist and testing the obvious…

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0 7955775 over 2 years ago

Ray already answered: Thanks-

Yeah, I'll be following up with Garmin later today about it during a call. I've been using the Epix as daily driver the last month or two, but still using FR955 as a workout device (secondary for capturing data), and haven't run into any obvious issues, but it seems most of the issues with the 14.13 are more tied to daily usage than workout items.

Either way, on my radar to see what's up.

0 MK over 2 years ago in reply to 7955775

Thanks @7955775 ! I wrote DC rainmaker too and hopefully his call with Garmin has an impact!

0 BassT over 2 years ago in reply to MK

unfortunately his call is from 2019... and...here we are... :-|

0 8300582 over 2 years ago in reply to Jano22222

He is a shill. I was also thinking about DC Rainmaker recently and if he was a real consumer advocate he would write about the current situation. People point to his blog article, but first this was 3 or 4 years ago and second the article was ultimately super soft on Garmin. Never trust shills like DC Rainmaker or those "reviewers" on youtube. They all have a symbiotic, mutually profitable relationship with Garmin, you can bet your *** on it.

0 Jano22222 over 2 years ago in reply to 8300582

Maybe, maybe not. But in the current situasion where Garmin obvious don't care and refuse to answer , he could be your best bet. They obvious talk to him , Other than that i agree with you, nobody are a "reviewer"on youtube for fun, they all have a agenda (Read money). And that's ok for me. To Ray's credit , he's reviews is always detailed and in depht. Let's hope they will listen to him , this is a really bad situasion for both Garmin and the customers.

Even worse is that it's not only about the 955 , it's the culture of the whole Garmin as a company, have a look in the other forums, not only glory there either.