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Devs, testers, maybe even PMs, putting in the grueling hours and present on weekends and not just at crunch time. While I was working on Vista - and I don't think you ever have - there was no shortage of dedication on the part of anyone I knew of, at least those at the bottom of the org chart. Should I go over to building 9 and tell the Shell team to dump Glass and just go back to the XP shell in the name of shipping? Or maybe I should march into Amitabh’s office and tell him I’m firing all his flying-monkeys and bulk resolving their PREFIX bugs. Just-Suck-It-Up, what do you propose I do? Stage a dev coup and tell my PM team that I’m calling the shots now, so they can forget about those last few DCRs? That should look good on my September review, considering my boss the GM used to be the GPM. The managers who should provide that are MIA.
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We are working hard, but can’t make a difference because we don’t have any coordination or direction. But now every good thing I do is craptulized by someone farther up the management chain. I’ve made lots of mistakes in my career, and I’ve been accountable by making up for them with even more successes. I’m willing to be accountable for my mistakes, but first I want to see some GMs held accountable for theirs. One small reflection on accountability in this comment, in the midst of fixing automation-generated issues: Yeah, okay, " duhs" all around there, but that's a small insight at the end of a long running slo-mo train-wreck. A number of commenters have pointed out that slipping Vista due to the non-business components not being ready was the right thing to do: shipping something shoddy early is an awful sin compared to shipping later and high quality. This accountability thing is a core value to me that translates into a better company. Truth be told, at this date I'd much rather start writing about how Microsoft is turning itself around versus pounding out diatribes raging against the machine regarding how we need to start obvious enforcement of accountability. As if scanning the sky amidst the destruction of their city, Microsoft watchers fretted, " Where's Scoble?"Ĭould we have at least waited a week to break the news and built up a wee-bit of positive goodness from Mix06 and the Office developer's conference? Then, as if to torpedo ourselves, the bad news and reorganization erupts and the Mix06 attention meter drops to nil. Mix06 seemed to be a nice, delightful skip along that path. We have lots of sins to amend for and lots of contrition to work through before we can be back in balance. this seems like a very different Microsoft," and how people were beginning to get that the next generation of Microsofties were busy turning Microsoft into a positive, transparent, honest we're working with you company. It's all lost now, but I remember seeing appreciative quotes like ". Last week started with me beginning to collect positive buzz around Microsoft via the Mix06 conference ( and write notes about dev vs. ( This is one of those navel-gazing posts, so be forewarned - after a fire-burner of a week, I'm trying to bore things down here.) Well, hasn't this been a hum-dinger-ringer of a past week? That Vista 2007 post is up above 430 comments so far.