Development Team
NT 3.1
- Starts very small (6), grows very slowly to 200 people
- NT Culture was commonly understood by all
Windows 2000
- Mass assimilation of other teams into the NT team
- NT 4.0 had 800 developers, Windows 2000 had 1400
- Original NT culture practiced by the old timers in the group, but keeping the culture alive was very difficult due to growth, physical separation, etc.
- Diluted culture leads to much conflict
- Accountability: I don’t “own” the code that is busted, see Markl
- reliability vs. new features
- 64-bit portability vs. new features