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Heads roll at Microsoft
« on: March 27, 2006, 08:56:06 am »
After the most recent delay, Microsoft put a new executive in charge of future Windows projects.  In addition, they replaced several other managers.  (source)

They've Replaced a whole bunch of managers when a project is almost done, and they added a bunch of new people to the project team.  We've been told over and over in different software engineering/project management courses that those are incredibly dumb things to do.  I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft is completely screwing itself by making these moves, but I guess we'll see !

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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2006, 09:23:22 am »
We can only hope so, god I love seeing rich white people burn.

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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2006, 10:10:15 am »
We can only hope so, god I love seeing rich white people burn.

You're seriously an asshole.

After the most recent delay, Microsoft put a new executive in charge of future Windows projects.  In addition, they replaced several other managers.  (source)

They've Replaced a whole bunch of managers when a project is almost done, and they added a bunch of new people to the project team.  We've been told over and over in different software engineering/project management courses that those are incredibly dumb things to do.  I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft is completely screwing itself by making these moves, but I guess we'll see !

What's funny is that they say the same thing in their books (like Code Complete and Rapid Development) - these things are not good practices.

We'll see how things go.
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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2006, 10:39:17 am »
What's funny is that they say the same thing in their books (like Code Complete and Rapid Development) - these things are not good practices.

We'll see how things go.

Exactly!  In my Project Management class we had a whole chapter on what NOT to do if your project is behind schedule.  They're doing pretty much everything we learned not to do.  Who's coming up with these ideas?

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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2006, 10:51:29 am »
Exactly!  In my Project Management class we had a whole chapter on what NOT to do if your project is behind schedule.  They're doing pretty much everything we learned not to do.  Who's coming up with these ideas?
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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2006, 01:09:20 pm »
We can only hope so, god I love seeing rich white people burn.

You're seriously an asshole.

After the most recent delay, Microsoft put a new executive in charge of future Windows projects.  In addition, they replaced several other managers.  (source)

They've Replaced a whole bunch of managers when a project is almost done, and they added a bunch of new people to the project team.  We've been told over and over in different software engineering/project management courses that those are incredibly dumb things to do.  I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft is completely screwing itself by making these moves, but I guess we'll see !

What's funny is that they say the same thing in their books (like Code Complete and Rapid Development) - these things are not good practices.

We'll see how things go.
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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2006, 01:34:23 pm »
We can only hope so, god I love seeing rich white people burn.

You're seriously an asshole.

After the most recent delay, Microsoft put a new executive in charge of future Windows projects.  In addition, they replaced several other managers.  (source)

They've Replaced a whole bunch of managers when a project is almost done, and they added a bunch of new people to the project team.  We've been told over and over in different software engineering/project management courses that those are incredibly dumb things to do.  I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft is completely screwing itself by making these moves, but I guess we'll see !

What's funny is that they say the same thing in their books (like Code Complete and Rapid Development) - these things are not good practices.

We'll see how things go.
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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2006, 01:39:36 pm »
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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2006, 02:26:15 pm »
Why am I an asshole? Microsoft is doing it to themselves!
We can only hope so, god I love seeing rich white people burn.
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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2006, 06:12:43 pm »
After the most recent delay, Microsoft put a new executive in charge of future Windows projects.  In addition, they replaced several other managers.  (source)

They've Replaced a whole bunch of managers when a project is almost done, and they added a bunch of new people to the project team.  We've been told over and over in different software engineering/project management courses that those are incredibly dumb things to do.  I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft is completely screwing itself by making these moves, but I guess we'll see !


Maybe it fails in their position, Microsoft isn't going to let a project hyped so much fail. They will throw unlimited amounts of money at it if they have to, but it will get done. The replacements were done for the best of the company.
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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2006, 07:07:50 pm »
After the most recent delay, Microsoft put a new executive in charge of future Windows projects.  In addition, they replaced several other managers.  (source)

They've Replaced a whole bunch of managers when a project is almost done, and they added a bunch of new people to the project team.  We've been told over and over in different software engineering/project management courses that those are incredibly dumb things to do.  I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft is completely screwing itself by making these moves, but I guess we'll see !


Maybe it fails in their position, Microsoft isn't going to let a project hyped so much fail. They will throw unlimited amounts of money at it if they have to, but it will get done. The replacements were done for the best of the company.

That's the problem, though.  Throwing money at a problem like a slipping schedule almost invariably makes the problem worse.  Like I said, many, many projects have failed because of trying to do that. 

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« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2006, 09:57:25 pm »
If it has to happen anyway regardless (take this situation for example) it's better to throw money at them to let them hire top notch people to continue where the others left off.
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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2006, 10:01:39 pm »
That'd really suck if Microsoft went bankrupt... I'd have to learn a whole new operating system...
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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2006, 10:06:08 pm »
If it has to happen anyway regardless (take this situation for example) it's better to throw money at them to let them hire top notch people to continue where the others left off.
Then the top notch people have to learn everything that's happening, which is a lot of re-education.  Read the book, "The Mythical Man Month", it's one of the foundation books on project management and that's where they discuss why adding peopel to a project rarely speeds it up.  It's better, in general, for them to suck it up and delay the project or drop features.

That'd really suck if Microsoft went bankrupt... I'd have to learn a whole new operating system...
I really doubt that will happen.  It's just more likely that this will delay their release longer. 

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Re: Heads roll at Microsoft
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2006, 10:19:17 pm »
If it has to happen anyway regardless (take this situation for example) it's better to throw money at them to let them hire top notch people to continue where the others left off.
Then the top notch people have to learn everything that's happening, which is a lot of re-education.  Read the book, "The Mythical Man Month", it's one of the foundation books on project management and that's where they discuss why adding peopel to a project rarely speeds it up.  It's better, in general, for them to suck it up and delay the project or drop features.

Well Vista has been delayed a while but I doubt new project managers will be touching much of the code in this particular instance.
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In general I think people implementing higher things like applications are the ones who tend to get replaced a lot which results in messy code for Windows applications. Of course with WinFX including XAML application development time is cut probably in half.
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