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Oh lord, product studio. Back in 2013 the preferred method of filing workitems for a given "wave" was to load this spreadsheet, do weiiird formatting, and inden
by shepwalker 7y ago
Oh lord, product studio. Back in 2013 the preferred method of filing workitems for a given "wave" was to load this spreadsheet, do weiiird formatting, and indentation, type up all the workitems you foresee for the next sprint and then press a magic "send to product studio" button." God help you if you messed up some of the nesting or wanted to reorder anything - honestly I would just wipe it clean and start from scratch.
Ironically my team just finished a product called RAID that was designed to kill bugs in product studio and move them to DevOps. There are still pockets of teams that use Product Studio within Microsoft - the sufficiency gap is real - but they're the overwhelming minority now.
- mc32 7y agoSounds like the product could have been named FLIT, given the finicky nature. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flit_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flit_gun
- asveikau 7y agoI had absolutely zero problems with product studio when I used it from 2008-2011. It was a very 1990s style MDI application, somewhat representing the peak of win32 ux design, short and to the point, and as long as the servers were happy it "just worked".