What do you do when you know something is important for your company, but your management doesn’t agree? For our guest Jeffrey Snover, building PowerShell was so important he took a demotion at Microsoft to do it. Now PowerShell is arguably one of the most powerful and effective tools to empower administrators across IT using tech from Microsoft to VMware and Jeffrey is a Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect for Windows Server and System Center.

Jeffrey believed that this was one of the best ideas he’d had, and so he was willing to walk against a management headwind to build it. It’s underlying technology, .NET, wasn’t even well-regarded inside Microsoft at the time.