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I have heard that people at MS do something called "app week". This appears to be a week between milestones where you take a week to build something that can b
by kenjackson 16y ago
I have heard that people at MS do something called "app week". This appears to be a week between milestones where you take a week to build something that can be built in a week. Usually just tangentially related to their product. Maybe this author can talk about that at some point.
- sriramk 16y agoAgain very dependent on the team. I've been in teams which specifically carved out time for this and also been in teams where prototyping/building crazy stuff was something you did all the time.
- snprbob86 16y agoMy team (XNA Game Studio) had App Week once or twice each year. By far my favorite time spent at Microsoft. The XNA team is full of ex-game developers because working on platforms at Microsoft has much better "work life balance" than game studios. The stuff that I, and the other team members, created were always cool/fun/hilarious/weird/etc. It was like a week long game jam ending with a Friday afternoon "Think and Drink" where everyone showed off their creations and talked about the good, the bad, and the ugly of our own technology through their App Week experiences.