By Fuji (mcsenow) Nguyen on 12/27/2006

One of the core skills of a Program Manager is to build consensus. Microsoft (like many knowledge-worker driven IT companies) is not a top-down organization. For the most part, projects, ideas, directions are taken on through a consensus building exercise at one level or another. While this can be frustrating and slow at times, it does a very effective job at weeding out bad ideas and honing good ones. Read More »

By Fuji (mcsenow) Nguyen on 12/17/2006

This is a good book on software management skill. A sample chapter 5 is available at http://www.codeproject.com/books/1590590082_5.asp Read More »

By Fuji (mcsenow) Nguyen on 12/17/2006

XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=72D6AA49-787D-4118-BA5F-4F30FE913628&displaylang=en Read More »

By Fuji (mcsenow) Nguyen on 12/2/2006

Source Control, Unit Test, Deploy Read More »