( continues...) first time in two years (but I did not actually finish the gimlet).
Tomorrow I'll go into work, and someone will mistake me for the owner of the front page of the main application, and I'll field that request, because that business group now only talks to me. The PM will come to me, because on his second project here he's come across a problem our programmer already solved on the last project, and can I do some research and find out what the fix is for his new project, please?
Yeah, we can, because the developer is rock star like that. He will send your team his query, and it will be the template for how it's done from now on.
See that development model with three overlapping teams? No one has deployed with that model before us. Watch this space. Watch badassed back ends and tight hi tech slickly usable web pages. Watch us do it smoothly next time! They did say it couldn't be done, or it wouldn't be worth it, but I wanted to get my way, because this was important.
And lo, it was coded. We got to market on time, with a development team spread across Southern Cali (many of us work from home), in Minnesota, and in India and across divisions. It worked and it was pretty, and now I have a pen, a phone screen wipe and a fuck of a lot of contacts to show for it. I might just have impressed the Director of marketing.
They were looking for 5% penetration into the application in a year, and they got 10% in two weeks. Next stop, retention. Next stop, the moon.
I hope I'm on that project. And the next, and the one after that.