New Year Resolution

January 2007. A new year; a fresh start. OK, not exactly a fresh start. There is plenty of carry-over stress from 2006. But a lot is new too. My first, recently acquired, has a bright a new future as part of a much bigger family. We are also taking a fresh look a engineering software...adapting to the "Web 2.0" (now there's tired phrase) and adopting iterative development practices.

We had spent much of 2006 recruiting talent, reducing dependence on consulting, and introducing an aggressive slate of products. Now the challenge is tying our offering into a cohesive suite of applications that are scalable and easy to deploy. This includes our push to migrate legacy software written in Visual Basic (yes VB 6.0 client/server) to a current infrastructure. This challenge is as much political as technical.

So the resolution? It's sharing the experience, the same resolution made (and not kept) a year ago. This year my goal is to share both positive and negative experiences, thoughts, and ideas. Topics will include recruiting talent, migrating legacy code, engineering methods, and things I just don't foresee. And I'll try to leave my personal goals (fighting my waistline, renovating my home) out...usually.

In any case, here's to yet another new year and another resolution to keep or break (time will tell).