Preface

During my 15 years at Microsoft, I have spent 10 years working in various product groups shipping 11 products, including Windows NT, Visual Studio, BackOffice, Small Business Server, and the Microsoft Mouse. I have also been on a couple of canceled projects that never made it out the door. For the past 5 years, I have been consulting on Microsoft’s best source code control (SCC), build, test, and deployment processes, with an emphasis on the build process. It seems that for all the years that I have been working at Microsoft, I have always been in some kind of Software Configuration Management (SCM) role working in the build lab, writing and running tests, creating setup programs, or coordinating project meetings.

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