Microsoft Secrets How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People

Name: Microsoft Secrets How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
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ISBN: 9780684855318

ISBN-10: 0684855313

ISBN-13: 9780684855318

Edition: 1998

Authors: Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby

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Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 12/4/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Preface


Introduction


Organizing and Managing the Company


Find "Smart" People Who Know the Technology and the Business


Managing Creative People and Technical Skills


Organize Small Teams of Overlapping Functional Specialists


Competing with Products and Standards


Pioneer and Orchestrate Evolving Mass Markets


Defining Products and Development Processes


Focus Creativity by Evolving Features and "Fixing" Resources


Developing and Shipping Products


Do Everything in Parallel, with Frequent Synchronizations


Building a Learning Organization


Improve Through Continuous Self-Critiquing, Feedback, and Sharing


Attack the Future!


Appendixes


Microsoft Chronology Main Microsoft Desktop and Business Applications


Microsoft Operating Systems Applications


Division Employee Survey Selected Chronology of Microsoft Agreements for the Information Highway


Interviews


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index