I'll be there!

A plug: I went to this session last year, it was fantastic to hear not only the what's, but also the how's and why's of Tableau developer thinking. It gave me additional confidence that Tableau folks think about the kinds of things I think about as a Tableau Desktop developer & Server admin. (Also, though the developers didn't talk about specifics, they definitely give out some broad brush strokes of things they were thinking about for the future.)

tobyerkson0 and Shawn Wallwork, we've had some discussions this year about this topic, I recommend this session to you.

Jonathan I think I was sitting next to you at the TC12 version of that session. Francois put all our questions on a whiteboard, (not many 'how to' questions, most 'why not' questions) and they worked through them. Of course they left the ones they didn't want to answer to the very end so the clock ran out. (Francois is a very sly fox that way.)

From this year's description they seem to be wanting more 'how to' questions, and steer-clear of the 'why not' questions (i.e. road map). Sort of interesting because the whole conference is one big 'how to'.  Most of the questions I'd want to ask the Devs are 'why not's', so I'm going to wait for one-on-one party sessions to pitch my wants/ideas, if I can get a few of them cornered.

Cheers,

--Shawn

I'd say we're perfectly happy with "why" and "why not" questions directed at anything we've done in the product - history, motivations, past road map... but this is not the place to set or reveal future product plans.

Oooo, thanks for the clarification James! I'll be there. I've got a lot of Why didn't/haven't you done X? questions. I'll keep all my Are you going to do X? questions for another time/event.

Unfortunately a rehearsal will get in the way.

Cheers,

--Shawn

A session of ask Tableau programmers and a project manager why certain feature requests haven't been released yet would be far more insightful.

I would ask why we still can't make formatting changes to all worksheets and workbooks?

http://community.tableau.com/ideas/1027