High Performance. Innovation. Strategy.
“Optimizing performance without first measuring is like shooting in the dark without knowing what you are aiming at.” — Paul Hsieh. From a software performance standpoint, “hot spots” are an area of intense activity. They’re hot spots because they’re frequently executed code paths with some sort of friction or bottleneck. They represent potential optimization paths …
“Good performance is about good design, not good hardware.” — Bob Wilcox While working on performance projects at Microsoft, I developed a software Performance Hot Spots Framework that we used to organize and prioritize software performance and scalability issues. I employed this software Performance Hot Spots Framework to organize performance guidelines and checklists for optimal …
“Software performance engineering is not just about achieving high performance; it’s about maximizing value delivered to the customer.” — Connie Smith Agility is the key to unlocking high-performance software engineering, and an Agile Performance Engineering Framework is the tool to help you achieve it. One of the key challenges with building software, is how to …
“Agile content development is not about producing content quickly, but about delivering the right content at the right time to meet the needs of the user.” — Robert Mills As someone who has worked on building and managing content at Microsoft for more almost two decades, I know firsthand the importance of an effective content …
“Agile is not a destination, but a journey. It is not a methodology, but a mindset.” — Unknown As a program manager at Microsoft for almost two decades, I have learned that shaping a process with a team can be a challenging task, especially if the team cannot visualize it. A mental model is essential …
