Emma Williams: Building Visual Studio with Intentional Engineering

Posted By: Charles | Sep 4th, 2007 @ 12:48 PM

Emma Williams is very passionate about building innovative software in a highly reliable, scalable way. Her's is the art of engineering engineering. What?

As General Manager of Visual Studio core engineering, Emma's main objectives are to build both a superior development suite of tools and to design and deliver on engineering processes that result in fewer bugs and faster release cycles for Visual Studio. How do you make great products without great engineering practices? It's been done, but the journey is longer than customers care for. How do you innovate development processes? Tune in and meet one of the pioneers of "Intentional Engineering" to learn about the future of engineering process at Microsoft, beginning with Visual Studio.

Tags: Intentional Engineering, Visual Studio

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raymond

Interesting video. Smiley

littleguru
allein, allein,... allein, allein!

Very nice video! Seems like each Microsoft employee has some hidden "feature" Cool

asklepios
Dammit, I'm a doctor not a computer!

I wish a little more time could have been spent on getting to know her as a human being like what are her hobbies, what kind of art/ music she likes, what kinds of books she reads, who have influenced her most in life, what's her philosophy of life, etc., etc.

travelster

Most of the channel 9 speakers aren't as interesting or candid speakers as Emma is. One of my favorite shows.

WdK

A really nice video!

Good to see how Microsoft evaluates their development process and keeps improving it.

Looking forward to the final version of Orcas!

dcuccia

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but did anyone else notice the edit at 26:37, between "Silverlight, and ..." "some other things"?

And, what MS?