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I would like to agree here, but to emphasise "discipline" being an organisational not individual issue. Given that there are certainly competent emgineers at M
by lifeisstillgood 6y ago
I would like to agree here, but to emphasise "discipline" being an organisational not individual issue. Given that there are certainly competent emgineers at MSFT and most could carve out a week of coding without anyone noticing, what is missing is high level organisational insistence on good professional discipline - and it's so easy to just let that slip.
For example a comment earlier mentioned the chat feature is broken but they rushed out video background changes. This of course is a response to zoom - and it's possible to argue it's a strategic necessity - but it suggest the top level product management is blowing around in internally company winds rather than user needs.
- Quarrelsome 6y ago> and it's possible to argue it's a strategic necessity I would argue its a strategic failure. Purely reacting to the competition is something that has led to countless Microsoft disappointments (e.g. Zune, Bing).
- jschwartzi 6y agoTeams is pretty crappy software but it works really well as an integrated chat system and it fits nicely in our organization.