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Moody chronicles his year observing a young and inexperienced team of Microsoft developers working on a children's multimedia project under the dictatorial leadership of Bill Gates. For general readers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Microsoft Secrets principles are great theory, but how do they feel in practice? Here is the Microsoft version of Tracy Kidder’s classic Soul of a New Machine.
A team of eager Microsoft engineers and product managers go for it, trying to build a children’s encyclopedia to extend the success of Microsoft’s earlier Encarta product. The genius of overlapping defined roles on a quest for a common goal comes face to face with the confusion, surprises, conflicts, diversions, disappointments, and elations inherent in most large-scale software programs trying to do something new (and aren’t they all?). Theory and…
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