What it's REALLY like to work at Microsoft

Geek alert: skip this if you're not into software project management/development

A fascinating blog and opinions at http://www.drizzle.com/~lettvin/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html

I was interested by those who diss the ubiquitous Joel Spolsky - I like what Joel writes but, like all of us, he's not perfect.

Reminds me of Conway's Law: "Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it".

IMO it is also a law that "Any piece of software reflects the organizational CULTURE that produced it."

Happy, cool, innovative, high morale teams produce correspondingly nice software.

(See here for more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Law )



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