I have been pretty slammed lately. We have been working hard getting our project into production, there have been some rough spots but we are starting to look pretty good. This is the project I have been working on for the last year and a half. When we started .NET 2.0 was still in beta, and now a service pack for Visual Studio 2005 is coming out. I realized the other day that I have blogged very little about this project, but I plan on changing that and talking about what we have been doing, the challenges we have run into, and some of the interesting solutions we have come up with.
In my “off-time” I have been busy wrapping up the book, working on the book website, and working on another side-project I will just call csoft for now. The book is off to the printers, the site is going pretty well, and I am very excited about csoft. The interesting thing with csoft is that I already have a couple of non-programming partners, including a PM who is working on all the logistics and a salesman who is already laying the groundwork for getting sales going. I have started and given up on plenty of projects in the last couple years, but this time around with others helping push me along things are going much better.
I have also been taking some more time to enjoy life. I am reading more (I have about 5 more book to post about). Catching the Titans games every Sunday with my sister and brother-in-law, and spending some time working on the house.
-James
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I thought “delivering working software frequently” was part of Agile. After a year and a half, you’re still not in production?
We do deliver working software frequently, but when you are replacing an existing production system you have to replace a certain amount of that functionality before pushing the new system into production. Would you want to use the next version of Quicken if it only have three features completed? Nope, you have to wait until they have gotten the same feature set complete.
How we try to mitigate this is by involving the business analysts with the latest build on a weekly basis and the users on a bi-weekly basis.
-James
Thanks. I understand now. So the business analysts and users approve the progress along ther way and verify the system meets their requirements. I’ve never worked on a system that took that long to develop and implement. The system you’re working on must be extremely complex.
I miss you so much it HURTS!
> The book is off to the printers,
> the site is going pretty well
what’s the url of the book site?
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