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July 2004 - Posts

Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:14 PM

patterns & practices Live!

A year ago, when I stepped into my current role on the p&p team, I knew that we created good content but we weren't doing enough to make our stuff consumable. I didn't like that we just threw it over the wall and assumed that customers would get it.
Posted by SandyK | 6 Comments
Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:41 AM

Keep It Simple, Software Guy!

Simplicity is a funny thing. A colleague of mine was showing me an ad for Visual Studio that was set in an office. The coders in the office had put together a ridiculously long diagram to represent the application they were building. My colleague was
Posted by SandyK | 4 Comments
Friday, July 16, 2004 1:20 PM

Three Years and Counting...

Today is my three-year anniversary at Microsoft. It’s hard to believe. I love telling the story about how I had no intention of coming here—I had a cool job lined up in management consulting and was ready to live the life of airplanes and
Posted by SandyK | 8 Comments
Monday, July 12, 2004 11:47 AM

Software Socialism?

Working with the patterns & practices group has been a really interesting way to spend the last few years of my life (three years this week!). When I got here, we were just “PAG”, the team that worked on the first MSA and the Reference
Posted by SandyK | 6 Comments
 
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