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Software Performance Framework

Performance Hot Spots Framework for Software

“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 …

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Delivery Daily

Are You Used to Delivering Daily and Responding to Change?

“Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” — Agile Manifesto Are you used to delivering working software on a daily basis and changing the software in response to emerging requirements? That’s a pretty good question, and timeless, too. I remember several years ago, …

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How Prescriptive Guidance Helps Win Raving Fans

This article will show you the secrets of winning customers success and platform adoption through prescriptive guidance. Here we go… What proven practices have you seen are vital behaviors that significantly contribute to customer success and satisfaction with our platform and products? … That’s a common question I get, having spent the bulk of my …

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A Language for Application Architecture

This is an article that I originally wrote for the Architecture Journal to walk through how we created “a language for software architecture.”  Since the article is no longer available, I’m making it available here for old time’s sake. The goal at the time was to create a simple way to work through solution design …

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Experience-Driven Development

Features don’t necessarily aggregate up to “experiences” and I would argue that today’s winning approach is … … Experience-Driven Development … Where experience means user’s can perform their goals successfully… the software makes them feel good and succeed at their goals.  It’s an integration of scenarios + experiences … and persona-based scenarios with goals. This …

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I am J.D. Meier. I help you unleash your greatest impact. Former head coach for Satya Nadella's innovation team. 25 years of Microsoft. Learn more...

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