Legend Scott Hanselman on what made him successful

var socialJQuery = jQuery.noConflict(true);new SocialBar(“1359511860439_social_6240”, {buttons:[“embed”,”twitter”,”facebook”], badgeUrl:”https://wistia.com”, embedCode:”%3Ciframe%20width%3D%22640%22%20height%3D%22360%22%20src%3D%22http%3A//www.youtube.com/embed/nN-qQiICaBA%3Frel%3D0%22%20frameborder%3D%220%22%20allowfullscreen%3E%3C/iframe%3E”}) In this interview with industry legend Scott Hanselman, Adam Cogan asks some questions to find out what exactly made him so successful in helping the wider community. Scott works for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, but he is mainly well recognised and revered by…

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Visual Studio 2012 with Jamie Cool

Adam Cogan interviews Jamie Cool from Microsoft about the new Visual Studio 2012 Jamie showed Adam the new Visual Studio 2012 and what a fantastic insight into the early Beta it was. Jamie demoed only the best features. In this interview, we cover: The philosophy behind the new design to the new Team Explorer The…

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Windows Azure – Moving Your Apps to the Cloud with Andrew Coates

Our latest Webinar is hosted by SSW’s Eric Phan, who is joined by Andrew Coates (Developer Evangelist at Microsoft) to talk all things Cloud and Azure. Being a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, Andrew is able to talk in great detail about the benefits of moving your apps to the cloud are and why Windows Azure…

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User Voice and Visual Studio 2012 with Doug Turnure of Microsoft

Adam Cogan interviews Doug Turnure, the man in charge of all user feedback involving TFS and Visual Studio over at Microsoft. They cover:

  • Doug’s history at Microsoft
  • How Doug manages and orginazes the feedback using User Voice
  • Furture versions of User Voice
  • Indepth look at how Doug uses User Voice to monitor feedback
  • Top feedback suggestion submitted by users

Doug lead’s the feedback and early adoption strategy for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. This includes both strategic planning and driving process improvements, which can get fairly complex for a distributed team of more than 1000 people.
His specific areas include pre-release technology adoption by enterprise customers, Improved listening systems for better conversations with customers, and end-to-end process improvement for handling customer feedback.

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