> Also, the areas in which Microsoft is revitalizing itself are green field projects like the cloud and some other interesting hardware/software integration
The example I have in mind is in a big legacy product. I can't get more specific without outing myself, but it's very far from greenfield.
> Specialized labor does help.
Specialization of labor can also hurt. I've found myself frustrated with security people in the past because they spend so much time thinking about security threats that they start to veto massively useful functionality on very flimsy security grounds. Broad exposure helps too.
> AB testing on wireframes helps and gets most of the edge cases. After you roll out to production things get hairy.
Why? There's no rule that says that everyone needs to see the same UI in production.
> Otto was based from Google expats, one from Google maps and one from the Google self driving car company. Your point is?
It's telling that Google autonomous drivers experts had to leave the company in order to get their work into a real live product.
The example I have in mind is in a big legacy product. I can't get more specific without outing myself, but it's very far from greenfield.
> Specialized labor does help.
Specialization of labor can also hurt. I've found myself frustrated with security people in the past because they spend so much time thinking about security threats that they start to veto massively useful functionality on very flimsy security grounds. Broad exposure helps too.
> AB testing on wireframes helps and gets most of the edge cases. After you roll out to production things get hairy.
Why? There's no rule that says that everyone needs to see the same UI in production.
> Otto was based from Google expats, one from Google maps and one from the Google self driving car company. Your point is?
It's telling that Google autonomous drivers experts had to leave the company in order to get their work into a real live product.