Evidence

Format Book / Offline paper

"Steven Sinofsky identifies Microsoft’s Zero Defects memo as the beginning of the Apps division’s culture of shipping."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution

Source authors Steven Sinofsky

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Microsoft’s 1989 Zero Defects memo represented a shift from hacker-style output toward disciplined engineering for software used by millions of people."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution

Source authors Steven Sinofsky

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Clive Thompson traces the later move-fast-and-break-things software ethos back to the rapid-release culture exemplified by Netscape."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Netscape’s largely online distribution model made frequent rereleases practical and turned customer feedback into part of the software-testing process."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Microsoft’s Watson evolved from crash reporting into granular telemetry about how people actually used software."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution

Source authors Steven Sinofsky

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Microsoft’s Watson created an Internet-connected feedback loop from crashes on users’ PCs to developers diagnosing and fixing the underlying bugs."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution

Source authors Steven Sinofsky

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"By 1997 Michael Goldhaber was explicitly framing scarce human attention as a central economic resource of the Internet."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title The attention economy and the Net

Source authors Michael H. Goldhaber

Source year 1997

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"A June 20, 1989 Microsoft memo by Chris Mason called zero-defects code the Holy Grail of programming and argued that zero defects should become the development performance standard."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title Zero-defects code

Source authors Chris Mason

Source year 1989

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Agile principles combined frequent software delivery with continuous attention to technical excellence and good design."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title Principles behind the Agile Manifesto

Source authors Kent Beck et al.

Source year 2001

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"The 2001 Agile Manifesto explicitly valued responding to change over following a plan."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Perpetual Beta and The death of Zero Defects

Source title Manifesto for Agile Software Development

Source authors Kent Beck; Mike Beedle; Arie van Bennekum; Alistair Cockburn; Ward Cunningham; Martin Fowler; James Grenning; Jim Highsmith; Andrew Hunt; Ron Jeffries; Jon Kern; Brian Marick; Robert C. Martin; Steve Mellor; Ken Schwaber; Jeff Sutherland; Dave Thomas

Source year 2001

Confidence high

Importance high