Happy gold branch day everyone. What does that mean to you? Nothing. Well, it means more postings here. It's my gold branch date for my all consuming work project. Which means the workload is finally trailing off significantly. No more 90+ hour weeks. I've got several new projects kicking off now, and this one to still launch, but that still can't compare to the previous workload. My family and friends should get me back now, and I'll be dribbling out thoughts I haven't had time to since the crunch started.
Of course, I do have half a semester's worth of schoolwork to do in a week, so maybe I'm not quite done with the craziness yet. :-)
At any rate, the more astute of you might think I'm a crappy project lead for allowing such crazy hours to be required to deliver the thing. You'd probably have a point. There are a lot of reasons, I'll just say that we lost one developer that didn't get replaced, we lost a week or so of development for environment problems (shared dev environments, in this day and age, really?), and we could have spent an extra 3 months figuring out the scope if we wanted to be sure but no one gave us that option.
I'm only going to get better at this. Just wanted to say welcome back friends, readers, and family.
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