For a design-fanatic like me, an attempt to design "Wow" stuff is relaxation. I hadn't spent much time on designing my MSDN blog (this blog.) I had been living with that guilt for a few months. So, I had decided to spend some time in designing a new blog...

Thomas Friedman, a New York times journalist and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, visited India to learn more about the impact of outsourcing as well as globalization on the Indian economy, society and culture. His study led to a ground-breaking...

A bunch of my friends and readers have asked me about "the" interviews for a program management position at Microsoft. Having being involved in several program management interviews, I'll try to write about the preparation that I would recommend for anyone...

How to conduct threat modeling meetings effectively? Prepare: Make sure that the participants have had enough context about the feature/component. Have about 3 reviewers who are NOT part of the component/feature team, to get an outsider...

In the design section, I will share my design philosophy, learnings and tips. I recently saw a recording of a presentation with the title: Creating products that people love. I use some of these principles to design the products in Real-Time Collaboration...

I had mentioned the launch of the official RTC blog, a few days ago. Currently our teams are finalizing the roll-out plans to make it the most useful to our readers. We plan to have the blog rolling from early January.

Chris Pratley (a Group Program Manager in Office) had described his personal experiences about the role of program management, almost two years ago on his blog. This post has helped a lot of new (and wannabe) program managers(including me!) at Microsoft...

While the role of Program Management is one of the very few roles in the software industry that is exclusive to Microsoft, the tangible responsibilities of the role are still not set in stone. Steven Sinofsky (senior VP of Office and a former Program...