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by shepwalker 2285 days ago
Oh lord, product studio. Back in 2013 the preferred method of filing workitems for a given "wave" was to load this spreadsheet, do weiiird formatting, and indentation, type up all the workitems you foresee for the next sprint and then press a magic "send to product studio" button." God help you if you messed up some of the nesting or wanted to reorder anything - honestly I would just wipe it clean and start from scratch.

Ironically my team just finished a product called RAID that was designed to kill bugs in product studio and move them to DevOps. There are still pockets of teams that use Product Studio within Microsoft - the sufficiency gap is real - but they're the overwhelming minority now.

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I had absolutely zero problems with product studio when I used it from 2008-2011. It was a very 1990s style MDI application, somewhat representing the peak of win32 ux design, short and to the point, and as long as the servers were happy it "just worked".
Sounds like the product could have been named FLIT, given the finicky nature.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flit_gun