Workshop 7: End of the Line

To deploy an application to production, it must be production ready. Well in successful project world anyway. I have raised some issues in the forums about where we have gone with the OTBS and especially the failings that affected my development process.

My system is far from and never will reach a production ready stage. The reasons for this are many and include the following:

• lack of source code control
• lack of testing methodology
• no interface/linkage for payment mechanisms
• what is the process that happens after a taxi is booked?

One of the problems that we have endured as developers is lack of a project plan. Reviewing the Workshop material, these are issues that were to be addressed by the blue team in Workshop 5. I am not sure of their progress but they have failed from a project management perspective in that they have not managed user expectations on this project.

It is at moments such as now when upon reflection I feel that I maybe should have chosen the other route and joined the blue team. The questions that have been tormenting me over the last few weeks are exactly the questions posed by Ken for the Managers thread (ie the blue team), but due to time constraints there is no way that these can now be achieved.

But even going down that path we are still in the situation of not having a project manager to set the project on track and to bring it to a successful conclusion.

Maybe it is worth thinking about for future versions of this subject to involve the project management subjects in a combined assignment across subject boundaries?