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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Countdown
So I am finally at the tail end of this project I've been working on for most of the year. This week is the final week of development and then we have a couple of weeks of testing, and then we are Live.
It's been a great experience, although two trips to Tokyo were ridiculously busy - I only saw the 100m stretch between the hotel and the office on each occasion.
Most interesting has been watching (yet again) how the worlds of business and software development intersect and how the same old problems keep on cropping up. Business people don't know how software developers do what they do, and the developers think business people are insane. To be fair we've kept that to a minimum on this project, but we still get things like
"Adrian, I can't publish anything!!!!!"
"Ah, yes, they took that away today while they fixed something else."
"Yes, but, we can't PUBLISH ANYTHING."
"Don't worry, we'll put it back in 30 minutes."
Whee.
It's been a great experience, although two trips to Tokyo were ridiculously busy - I only saw the 100m stretch between the hotel and the office on each occasion.
Most interesting has been watching (yet again) how the worlds of business and software development intersect and how the same old problems keep on cropping up. Business people don't know how software developers do what they do, and the developers think business people are insane. To be fair we've kept that to a minimum on this project, but we still get things like
"Adrian, I can't publish anything!!!!!"
"Ah, yes, they took that away today while they fixed something else."
"Yes, but, we can't PUBLISH ANYTHING."
"Don't worry, we'll put it back in 30 minutes."
Whee.
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