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I would really like to hear the story told by a product manager about this... and learn about the discussions with the engineers on this :)
by zeitgeist_y2k 5y ago
I would really like to hear the story told by a product manager about this... and learn about the discussions with the engineers on this :)
- quelltext 5y agoYou think a product manager was in any way involved with a function signature. I'm fairly certain this didn't come up in more detail than a requirement: "We need to add a way to call a macro...". And the story as told by the PM would be "...and so the engineers added a way". I've worked with a bunch of PMs on technical products, APIs, etc. and I've rarely met anyone discussing that level of detail or willing or able to make such a decision. The engineers chose a way that worked and it's likely the best way supported at the time, given the other comments I've read here on HN.
- paulmooreparks 5y agoJoel Spolsky was the program manager (true, not product manager) when VBA was added to Excel. He talks about it on his blog. "As a program manager at Microsoft, I designed the Visual Basic (VBA) strategy for Excel and completely speced out, to the smallest detail, how VBA should be implemented in Excel." https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/04/painless-functional-specifications-part-3-but-how/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/04/painless-functiona...