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Sep. 1st, 2004 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournDespite a grumpy start to the day, I've had a reasonably productive one so far. Did some more server maintenance since it is easiest to accomplish while the whole group is out of the office, some application profiling, and continued to represent the DRG group at the daily WAR meetings with my boss out of town--he usually attends them.
Since I've only been at Microsoft a month or so, it was perhaps a bit too early for me to witness the spectacle that is an 'Executive WAR' meeting. The stated purpose of such meetings is to triage bugs and be a place for all the individual component groups can have conflicts resolved, etc. It also seems to be dealing with process development, post mortems, bug analysis, and whatever initiative the upper echelon has decided to push for the week. It is where the politics of Microsoft meets the realities of software development at a managerial level, and frankly it is kinda scary how much has to be revisited and rehashed in a meeting that takes place every single day of the week for an hour. They are informative for me to get up to speed with what is going on in the wider group, but at times a chore to sit through.
I've heard it said that there are two things one should never see being made: sausage and Texas law. I think it would be fair to add a third thing to that list: Microsoft software.
With my boss taking vacation for several weeks soon, I'm guessing my fellow Dev would rather not go to these meetings either. Perhaps we'll flip for it each day :>
It also helped my mood that I had lunch at Celtic Bayou and had a cute server working my table...
Since I've only been at Microsoft a month or so, it was perhaps a bit too early for me to witness the spectacle that is an 'Executive WAR' meeting. The stated purpose of such meetings is to triage bugs and be a place for all the individual component groups can have conflicts resolved, etc. It also seems to be dealing with process development, post mortems, bug analysis, and whatever initiative the upper echelon has decided to push for the week. It is where the politics of Microsoft meets the realities of software development at a managerial level, and frankly it is kinda scary how much has to be revisited and rehashed in a meeting that takes place every single day of the week for an hour. They are informative for me to get up to speed with what is going on in the wider group, but at times a chore to sit through.
I've heard it said that there are two things one should never see being made: sausage and Texas law. I think it would be fair to add a third thing to that list: Microsoft software.
With my boss taking vacation for several weeks soon, I'm guessing my fellow Dev would rather not go to these meetings either. Perhaps we'll flip for it each day :>
It also helped my mood that I had lunch at Celtic Bayou and had a cute server working my table...
