Microsoft Office15

so as we get closer and closer to the Office 14 release, today we had an offsite brainstorming session to comeup with new ideas for the next Office wave (Office 15)! It was my first offsite and i have to say at the end of the day the we filled the walls across the hall with good (and crazy ;) ) ideas written on post it cards.

Some were totally cool ( and really ambitious at the same time) and some were plain out nerdy stuff. The process it self was really fun though, each team did it differently. My team (Office Web Apps) broke out into themes and each theme came up with as many ideas as they could. Ideas were then affined into clusters and sorted based on the Easy --> Hard and Low Value to High value.

We left the room (after about 6 hours) with big posters filled the ideas that got the highest number of votes from the team. Those if course will not be the exact set of features that we will implement for Office 15, they will be sort of guidance to write the Office 15 planning document.