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How Microsoft Develops Its Software
crem_d_genes writes "David Gristwood has a post on his blog that notes '21 Rules of Thumb - How Microsoft Develops Its Software', on which he will elaborate at TechEd in Amsterdam next week. It was derived from interviews with Jim Mccarthy, also of Microsoft. Gristwood: 'As someone who has been involved with software development for over two decades, the whole area of how you actually bring together a team and get them to successfully deliver a project on time, is one worthy of a lot of attention, if only because it is so hard to do. Even before I joined Microsoft, ten years ago, I was interested in this topic, having been involved myself in a couple of projects that, I shall politely say, were somewhat less than successful.' Tips include such features as 'Don't know what you don't know.'; 'Beware the guy in a room.'; 'Never trade a bad date for an equally bad date.'; and 'Enrapture the customers.'"
Enrapture the customers
Shouldn't that be shrink-wrapture the customers?!
I guess that's proof that M$ programmers actually go on dates!
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices.
does it have anything to do with "an infinite number of monkeys"?
With its eye's closed...
Come on... you got the correct form of "its" but you screwed up on the plural form of "eyes"?
You can do better...
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The quote is correct, but only for certain degenerate values of correct. You have to get yourself deep into managerspeak before something like that can be accepted with a good conscience.
Caveat: I am a developer, and I am aware that the only software that has zero bugs is unwritten software.
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I never thought "too much money on hand" is a problem, at least to me. It usually is the other way around.
All we know for sure that is that when Microsoft needs a new product, Bill Gates goes into his High Tower of Closed Sourcery with 15 sheep, Steve Ballmer, a technology company with an established product, and an Enya CD.
When he emerges, two months later, the new MS product is ready for market, the sheep have been trained as VP's, and the technology company is dead.
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"1. Don't know what you don't know.
It is essential not to profess to know, or seem to know, or accept that someone else knows, that which is unknown. Almost without exception, the things that end up coming back to haunt you..."
Did anyone else think of Rumsfeld's infamous mindfart (for which he won a Foot in Mouth award) --
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Eerie.
Big Daddy, Johnny, Burp, Aunt Zelda, Scott, Slurp, Big Momma
is much like how sausages are made:
Best not to know how.
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
I don't think anyone would stoop so low as to say they put out the WORST product out in the market.
well, ill say one thing. microsoft's windows me was definately one of the best operating systems around when it came to drawing white text on top of blue backgrounds.
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"NT 4 shipped with 65K defects?"
There were probably more, but they rounded down to avoid the "integer out of range" error in their bug tracking software.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Humans were not meant to sit in cubicles all day long, Michael.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Say, what kind of music do you play at this bar?
Oh, we have both kinds, Country and Western!