Making critical paths visible across 300,000+ servers.
Microsoft's cloud hardware teams plan around hundreds of thousands of servers. This project gave engineers and leaders one view of the critical paths that affect infrastructure decisions.
- Organization
- Microsoft, Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering
- Role
- Technical Program Manager
- Dates
- May to August 2022
- Skills
- Power BI, data visualization, requirements gathering, stakeholder management.
- Tools
- Power BI
Engineers were spending too much time pulling together analysis on server critical paths, and leadership needed a clearer picture to guide investment decisions.
Technical program manager. Owned the dashboard from requirements through delivery.
What I Did- Step 1
Gathered requirements from engineering and leadership.
- Step 2
Built a Power BI dashboard mapping critical paths across 300,000+ servers.
- Step 3
Presented the findings to inform infrastructure investment decisions.
- Critical paths mapped across 300,000+ servers.
- Findings presented to senior leadership to guide infrastructure investment.
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