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Do You Know How Long It Took to Develop Word for Windows 1.0?

Diego Basch

Not many people know the story of what would become one of the most widely used software products ever. I learned about it from a case study for my Software Project Management class in 1997, what follows is my summary ( original here , or Google it). The project was renamed to Opus, and was staffed mostly with new hires.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

They also want to avoid hiring extra resources that increase the cost of the finished goods unless absolutely necessary. In the two decades since then, he has been a grunt programmer, lead engineer, technical director, director of engineering, process consultant, and technical auditor for some of the industrys best-known companies.