Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Mark Osborne

• Challenges unique to building developer tools
• Changes to how Microsoft is now building its developer tools
• Using "Feature Crews" to build product
• Predictability, efficiency, and agility in software development
• Preventing "corner cutting" in development
• Defining and enforcing quality gates
• 600 features, and no single development methodology
• Managing dependencies

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Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Josh Berkus

In this interview with Josh, PostgreSQL Core Team Lead at Sun Microsystems Inc., we asked him about:

• How PostgreSQL fits into the landscape of open source databases
• New uses of PostgreSQL
• How new code and features are selected for PostgreSQL
• Quality control and maintenance of code
• Core maintainers and code contributors
• How contributors participate in PostgreSQL development
• Differences between open and closed source database
• Variations between PostgreSQL products
• PostgreSQL Windows users and Microsoft support

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart, and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: John McCreesh – Open Office

John McCreesh

In this interview with John who is the Marketing Program Lead for Open Office we asked him about:

• What the process is for delegating work out to members of the OpenOffice team
• How OpenOffice handles end user requests for features
• The engineering steering committee for OpenOffice
• Large Company contributions to OpenOffice
• How the Q/A process is handled for OpenOffice
• How OpenOffice generates appropriate documentation for end users
• How much goes into keeping OpenOffice cross platform (Mac, Linux, Windows) vs. emphasis on creating new features.
• The Office 2007 Ribbon, innovation, and standards as it relates to OpenOffice

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