Microsoft secrets : how the world's most powerful software company creates technology, shapes markets, and manages people /
Cusumano, Michael A., 1954-
Microsoft secrets : how the world's most powerful software company creates technology, shapes markets, and manages people / by Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby. - New York : Free Press, c1996. - xii, 512 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
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!
9781861975324 (pbk)
Microsoft Corporation.
Computer software industry--United States.
338.7 / CUS-M 1996 11671
Microsoft secrets : how the world's most powerful software company creates technology, shapes markets, and manages people / by Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby. - New York : Free Press, c1996. - xii, 512 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
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!
9781861975324 (pbk)
Microsoft Corporation.
Computer software industry--United States.
338.7 / CUS-M 1996 11671