{"id":1008,"date":"2016-11-20T15:57:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2016-11-20T15:57:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:57:14","slug":"teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned this at TestBash a few weeks ago (and on a yet-unreleased ABTesting podcast<\/a>) \u2013 and probably on twitter too, but my third \u201csecret\u201d project in a row at Microsoft (following Xbox One and the science project to make Android apps run on Windows Phone) was finally announced to the world on November 2nd.<\/p>\n

For the last fifteen months and change, I\u2019ve been in charge of quality for Microsoft Teams<\/a>. I was originally hired as \u201cthe quality guy\u201d, where my job was to coach developers on testing, and ensure we had a strategy in place to deliver a quality product. Along the way, I picked up some infrastructure pieces and now am responsible for taking code from developer check-in all the way through do deployment. I\u2019ve found that owning check-in gates, builds, and deployments (along with quality tools and testing) gives me a lot more confidence in releasing a high quality product to our customers. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also been a great opportunity to catch up on a lot of tech and processes that I\u2019ve wanted to get involved in. We use a lot<\/u> of open source, and we try to release as frequently as we can (currently weekly, but certainly on the path to continuous deployment). There\u2019s still a lot of work to do on the product, and a lot on my team to ensure we can improve builds, deployment, and quality.<\/p>\n

Now that we\u2019re \u201cout there\u201d, I can finally share some stories about things I\u2019ve tried, what\u2019s worked, and what has failed using real examples rather than abstract references. Looking forward to sharing those stories soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned this at TestBash a few weeks ago (and on a yet-unreleased ABTesting podcast) \u2013 and probably on twitter too, but my third \u201csecret\u201d project in a row at Microsoft (following Xbox One and the science project to make Android apps run on Windows Phone) was finally announced to the world on November 2nd….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}