Fall has come and gone. Tomorrow at this time, finals will be over and it’ll be Christmas Break!
w00t
I’m listening to Christmas music now, and thinking back on this term. We made it through two large Banner changes. Move in went smoothly (after we didn’t migrate away from our NAC solution). Projects continue to get done – although perhaps at a slightly slower pace than hoped.
Frequently developer schedules are delayed by the on-going maintenance from previously built applications. As that body of work increases, traditionally the maintenance on it also increases. The danger appears when developers are spending more time doing maintenance than new development.
Staff turnover only exacerbates this issue, and programs are divvied up between existing and new developers to maintain someone else’s code 🙂
It has been a good term, and though I feel more behind than ever – I feel like we’ve been meeting the critical needs with a high level of customer service and system stability.