Microsoft's Nadella promotes internal sharing of project code by employees

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed on Mon that team members at the company are at present allowed to share lawmaking from their projects internally with each other for the first time in an effort to modify its work culture.

Nadella, who made those remarks equally part of a Q&A during the Fortune Brainstorm conference, stated that before he came on board as CEO, team members has a mindset to "concur" and "protect" lawmaking from their projects. He added:

We need places where we innovate and we need renewal is in the core. When I think of our challenge today ... the core priority is renewal of mainstream work [processes]. Let'southward have what we are good at and rethink information technology. That's not a side projection. That is the very company itself.

Nadella also stated that that he would like for more than Microsoft employees to contribute to open source projects, including Hadoop. The statements reinforce what he wrote about last calendar week in his over three,000 give-and-take email to employees, where he also hinted at some major organizational changes that are coming to Microsoft in the near future. Those changes are rumored to include an unknown number of layoffs.

What do y'all retrieve of Nadella'south efforts to foster sharing of software code inside Microsoft besides as efforts to add to open source projects?

Source: Business organization Insider

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