This week I started fresh with a new company and a new title. After four years as a Software Development Manager and a short stint as an Enterprise Architecture Manager I’ve now returned to managing a group of internal IT developers. The current title is Application Development Manager.
The new organization is full of opportunities and challenges. Some of these include:
- Inheriting a senior development team.
- An organization which is still early in the process of formulating practices and process.
- High level support for process improvement a mix of CMMI, ITIL, PMI, and a bit of RUP at present.
- Systems with real high availability requirements.
- A JBoss shop.
- A QA team pushing hard to push for quality throughout the project and not just at the end. Plus they’re doing automation and load/performance tuning.
- Developers self-organizing a weekly gathering to discuss software topics.
I wake up about 5 am these days to go for a walk every morning. These days it’s a lot easier to bounce up and not just hit the snooze button. If I can get Perforce setup with a Hudson plugin I might just set up a continuous build box tomorrow.
Congratulations and good fortune Ed.
I’am feeling happy that you have returned into the software field after long time with new designation, and iam feeling glad about it that You are managing a group of internal IT developers.each and every new organization will be full of opportunities and challenges. so all the best for your bright future…
Hey Ed, all the best for your new job.
Looking forward to you sharing the new experiences with us.
How is it working out with The Little Schemer and Dr. Scheme? Pushed onto the backburner for a while?
I’ve made it about halfway through The Little Schemer, but I’ve been focusing a lot on the new job. I’m doing a lot of inspecting right now, but eventually I’ll move into more adaptation.
I still like spending an hour here in there doing a little Scheme.
Hi,
Excellent article – I really appreciate your blog and I am also feeling so much happy that you have really returned into the software field after long time with new designation, I have bookmarked it for later viewing and forwarded it on.
Wish you a very good luck for your bright future
Cheers.
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