Final Explore internship reflection
This summer I was an Explore intern with Microsoft Excel. The Explore internship was a 12-week internship where a pod of three interns, called a feature crew, worked through the product management and software development phases of developing a new Excel feature. The intern feature crew is supported by one Engineering mentor, two Project Management mentors, and one Engineering manager who was the project supervisor. My internship project was to offer a solution for customers to open Excel workbooks from Excel Desktop in Excel Online. During the first four weeks of the internship, my project feature crew collaborated through the Product management phase alongside setting up our development environment and getting familiar with the Excel product and the organization’s coding style. We started with user interviews where we interviewed general Excel customers and Product Managers who worked on Excel features that are exclusive to the Online version. From our interviews with eight Product M...