Microsoft’s Modernized Development Workflow Begins To Show Cracks

[wickedplayer494]

[url]https://www.petri.com/microsofts-modernized-development-workflow-begins-show-cracks[/url]

[quote=Brad Sams/Petri]When Satya Nadella took over the top position of the org chart at Microsoft, he made several key decisions that have helped shape the direction of the company. By moving the company to a ‘mobile first, cloud first’ stance, layoffs of thousands across many different orgs, and consolidating business units, it’s safe to say that this Microsoft is now fully his.

One of the key decisions that Nadella made was to change how software was built inside the company. Prior to his implementation of a streamlined operation to help ship code faster, there as roughly a one-to-one relationship between developers and those who test the code for stability and bugs.

After the layoffs, which gutted a significant portion of the employees who were in the testing group, management pushed down the idea that developers should be fully responsible for their own code. This, in itself, is not a crazy idea, but the transition to this methodology is starting to show its weakness in the products that Microsoft has been shipping since the release of Windows 10.[/quote]

[Scratch]

I remember recently talking to an anon on /g/ who works on application development within Microsoft.

[quote]Most of the new staff after the massive layoffs suck, are extremely incompetent and create buggy shit that Microsoft approves because they don't care about the user.[/quote]

[wickedplayer494]

Sounds eerily similar to what pre-reset Longhorn was: riddled with bugs, employees lost sight of what "stability" meant.

[ithon]

oh wait is this the same person behind window 8?

I've heard things about windows 8 back in the day.

[wickedplayer494]

[QUOTE=Ithon;49173946]oh wait is this the same person behind window 8?

I've heard things about windows 8 back in the day.[/QUOTE]

Steve Ballmer was CEO when Windows 8 hit RTM, and although he had announced his immediate resignation not long after, he saw Windows 8.1 hitting RTM too. Steven Sinofsky, the Windows head at the time, was around for 8 but was ousted by Ballmer before 8.1.

[Insight]

I work at Microsoft and work on a small team. However a team I work with closely when the big lay offs were announced like the Friday after. Around 20 or so people got let go, and some of them were very key people. People that knew a lot about the software we were creating.

I don't agree with the layoffs however I feel like Microsoft is in a better situation than what it was like a year or 2 ago.

[pyschomc]

It makes sense because my fucking windows 10 doesn't update one bit

[marticus]

[QUOTE=pyschomc;49178354]It makes sense because my fucking windows 10 doesn't update one bit[/QUOTE]

Mine did. Then it booted up into bluescreen. Had to format. RIP

[27X]

[QUOTE=TH3_L33T;49174057]I work at Microsoft and work on a small team. However a team I work with closely when the big lay offs were announced like the Friday after. Around 20 or so people got let go, and some of them were very key people. People that knew a lot about the software we were creating.

I don't agree with the layoffs however I feel like Microsoft is in a better situation than what it was like a year or 2 ago.[/QUOTE]

Gaining market/trend response time and losing horizontal compatibility and [b]stability[/b] is never what should be a hallmark for an *->[b]OS[/b]<-*. Completely fucking pants on head strategy.

[wickedplayer494]

[QUOTE=27X;49179792]Gaining market/trend response time and losing horizontal compatibility and [b]stability[/b] is never what should be a hallmark for an *->[b]OS[/b]<-*. Completely fucking pants on head strategy.[/QUOTE]

Yup. I don't give a damn about yearly updates, I'd rather swallow all sorts of new stuff all at once instead of "oh, this thing's new" every once in a while.