stuff happens today
March 25th, 2005 by boon
12:49am
I should start a midnight blog. It’s especially good to wind down in front of my good ol’ PC after a long day. and yesterday’s tomorrow should be remembered, my last day at UC, which incidentally falls on Good Friday.
I think people would have found out by now where I’m going. I kind of decided to tell different people different parts of the whole thing, so that there’s no single point of news. If they want, they can all get together over lunch and exchange information about what they learnt from me. I think they’d enjoy that, for some reason.
I spent the morning and part of the lunch hour on knowledge transfer-ing with my colleague, who will be taking over the work. It’s kind of nice to know the things I learnt won’t be going to waste, in a sense that it would be re-used in future projects.
Maybe I wasn’t very good in communicating the things I learnt to my boss or my colleagues. I definitely saw a lot of potential in front-end development, but somehow didn’t propagate my ideas very well. At the same time, I wasn’t sure if it would be well received by other people. I mostly kept to myself, and tried to put in documentation the stuff I did learn.
In the end, it’s all about people. It’s about how we relate to our peers and leaders. It’s about how our work affects lives… from our customers to the developers who end up debugging and improving the code. You can build the best app in the world, but if it doesn’t make a difference in people’s lives, it’s not going to count for much.
The customers have to see value, the engineers have to invent, the quality folks need to feel justified, the coordinators and the sales guys need closure, and the big guys at the top have to nod at the whole thing moving forward. if one person doesn’t do his or her job right, everyone feels the pinch.
it’s a clockwork mess in a way, but that’s life. the question isn’t about who makes the most money. it’s mainly about how everyone gets along with one another, and how much change and good is coming from the work we do.
I dunno. Maybe that’s too idealistic. What do you think?