My day to day responsibilities have changed pretty drastically in the last two years. I’ve gone from being the sole developer on a small, focused project to a manager over a department that is creating some some fairly large projects.
On second thought, it’s not so different. The challenges of the projects are the same. The wrinkle is the addition of more entities into the equation.
I do so much in a day that it takes me hours to decompress. I often cook up posts on my trip home only to succumb to the soothing caress of a game, T.V. show or conversation with the girlfriend. Today I:
Spent time discussing project and development workflow.
Finished setting up Nagios to monitor a bunch of machines.
Added a requested feature to our order entry / customer service app.
Tomorrow I intend to continue the process discussion. Having had some time to digest the information proposed I’ve got some ideas. With my current monitoring project wrapping up a few weeks early I can set my sights on the next one: automated testing of our codebase. I’m excited to spend some time with Verby made by my friend Yuval. It’s eerily similar to some code I had begun working on when I started thinking through this project. More on that in the future I hope.
I’m going to breath some life into my old What I Learned This Week posts, but marry them to my daily adventures in the development management world. I’m hoping that some upcoming projects will yield some post-worthy nuggets. If I’m lucky maybe I can come up with a talk to give at YAPC::NA 2008 in the next few months.
As a closing I’d like to thank Jon for suggesting Sierra Nevada Porter and my beautiful girlfriend for bringing pint glasses when she moved in.
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