My name is Kavitha Radhakrishnan and I am currently working as a Program Manager in the Developer Division PM team at Microsoft. The Developer Division PM team is responsible for the successful engineering, release, project management, and customer connection practices for the Developer Division which includes the .NET Framework, Visual Studio, and Visual Studio Team System.  I am primarily responsible for releasing software to manufacturing and to customers.  I spend day after day defining, driving, and coordinating our product line, hardware and software requirements, legal requirements, etc. with the Product teams, Marketing, Localization, as well as Senior management, to ensure that we ship the right product that meets the goals and needs of customers and requirements of the company. It is really exciting to manage and coordinate the release of multiple projects across the Division simultaneously, shipping product and working in a cross-division team environment all at the same time. 

On this blog, I will announce the availability of Developer Division releases including Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" releases and provide my invaluable insight into the process of releasing products across the company. Hopefully, we will all learn what it takes to release products at a company like Microsoft.