I wanted to post a brief explanation of why I haven't blogged as of late. This past year has been a long one as I've led two significant efforts at our company. First, we decided to close one of our satellite offices where we were performing all of our software development and IT functions. This actually proved much more difficult than I expected and at some point soon I may put together a post that details that process. In many ways it was more difficult than any of us imagined though it has positioned our company well for the future now having all of these functions directed from underneath a single roof.
At the same time that we were undertaking that effort we also began a project to completely rewrite the website for our company's flagship product. We outsourced this development to a truly innovative and talented .NET development house and while they ultimately produced an incredibly transformative product for a myriad of reasons (not the least of which was having to deal with the closure of our satellite office) the project went much longer than anyone expected (again, perhaps the subject of future blog post as well). In the end however, because of their help and skills we ended up with a product that once we put the finishing touches on it will create genuine excitement in our user community and will be widely accepted.
To provide leadership for both of these efforts, I also moved into a much more senior management role during the past year. Overall I believe it was a successful year, though it was many long hours and also pulled me away from being as hands-on as I like to be. We now are re-focusing our efforts on the redesign of our front-end by taking what we delivered and finalizing it so it can be rolled out to our customer base. My plan is to be much more involved in this process and I plan on ensuring that I am able to post my thoughts along the journey which IMHO is what this blog is all about.
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