How Microsoft Does Software Engineering
Or, "How We Make the Sausage: Lessons From the Factory Floor."
VSLive! San Francisco, January 31, 2006
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How does the Microsoft developer division produce software? During the Visual Studio 2005 roll-out, questions for the division arose about its development process and the tools it uses. Russ Ryan talks about how the team started out and what it learned, and shows some of the engineering practices and improvements set in place to make the next version even better.
About the Speaker
Russ Ryan has been at Microsoft for nine years, but not all at once. He led Microsoft groups that developed C Compilers and the LAN Manager in the years 1982-1988, then rejoined Microsoft in 2002 to serve as Product Unit Manager (PUM) for the Developer Division Customer Product-Lifecycle Experience Team. This group is responsible for working with developers to help them succeed throughout the lifecycle of Visual Studio and .NET Framework products.
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