Rolling Decisions

Monday, April 15th, 2002 at 12:37 PM | Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

Joel, once again, hit the nail on the head with his latest on Picking a Shipping Date. The more I read his stuff, the more amazed I am with his ability to simplify complex topics. This is a guy who has years of programming experience.

No offense to programmers, but the ones I’ve worked with don’t always put things in English for the rest of us.

He and I have "software processes" in common. I write articles for my company’s monthly newsletter and I’ve been trying to put our complex project into English. Surprisingly, it paid off last month. I got a short written “good job” note from one of the big wigs.

Stunned, but not one to miss out on an opportunity when I see one… I talked with my manager about contacting him to issue a statement for the newsletter demonstrating buy-in from upper management – a critical requirement for making any process-related program work.

He wrote back and said that not only will he issue an email to be funneled down (I suggested he do an email because people aren’t reading the newsletter, of course), but also he’ll write an article.

Back to Joel’s article. Remember he is speaking of software that is rolled out to the market for sale. The shop I work in develops software for the company to use in managing our products. The shipping issue would not apply in this case.

I wish Joel much success with Citydesk v2.0. I’m embarrassed. I was supposed to write a review of it back when it first released. But computer troubles and moving to a new computer nixed that. It’s a great content management solution for smaller companies and nonprofits that can’t afford nor have the manpower to manage the superpowered CMSes that cost thousands of dollars.

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