Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
- Title: Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
- Author: Michael A. Cusumano
- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Free Press (December 4, 1998)
- ISBN: 0684855313
This is a page of stuff copied from this book that I thought was interesting dealing with project/people management.
- Running a large team like a small one Project size and scope limits (clear and limited product vision; personnel and time limits)
- Divisible product architectures (modularization by features, subsystems, and objects)
- Divisible project architectures (feature teams and clusters, milestone subprojects)
- Small-team structure and management (many small multi-functional groups, with high autonomy and responsibility)
- A few rigid rules to “force” coordination and synchronization (daily builds, “don’t break the build” bug rules, milestone stabilizations)
- Good communications within and across functions and teams (shared responsibilities, one site, common language, non-bureaucratic culture)
- Product-process flexibility to accommodate the unknown (evolving specs, buffer time, evolving process)
Microsoft Secrets, Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby, p. 410.
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September 11th, 2005 by alephnaught