Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

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034. Office94, Office96

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034. Office94, Office96

15 percent of the resources dedicated to Chicago or 85 percent of the resources on Office96. See what we did there.—Resource allocation for the parallel releases, as marketed internally

Steven Sinofsky
Jun 25, 2021
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034. Office94, Office96

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With the Office Product Unit in place, and the outline of a plan to release with Chicago in about a year (whenever Chicago was finishing, which was unclear) and a second major release of Office a year after that, we still had to sell the team on the whole approach. This included allocating resources both to OPU as well as the app teams. From the Windows…

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