Agile at Microsoft

How things used to work

• Long Schedule
• Start knowing what to build
• Coding phase
• Testing and Stabilizing phase
• Shipping 2 times/year
• Product Owner got customer feedback

This used to work very well!

In a era where software delivery was very different from what it is today

What changed?

• Culture
• Approach to teams
• How to plan and learn
• How to stay healthy

Culture

<aside> 💡 “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”

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Daniel H. Pink Drive (A book of motivation)

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