About This Site

This site represents a collection of notes that have been collected by the Developer Division Team at Microsoft.

Largely, you’ll find the following types of resources:

Publication Notes: These posts will consolidate our key findings and identify inter-dependent relationships from a publication (e.g. book, article, video, etc.). These should not be seen as “reviews” because, if we’ve posted notes about the publication in the first place, then we’ve agreed that it’s worthy of your attention.
Process Notes: In DevDiv, we subcribe to a Lean, Customer-Driven process in developing our software. Process notes will help define a single process or set of processes that we’ve found useful in achieving our goals toward a customer-obsessed culture.

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