Application Developer for 18 years. One year at a research institute, two at a software house and 15 at one of the big four financial services firms. The first ten years at the current firm was spent doing the project management, business analysis and testing work in addition to the coding on my projects. I just had a Dev Manager who checked in on me once a week. I loved it back then and projects were completed for about £15,000 and the products created got a decade of use. Currently, the latest replacement system to be undertaken has been quoted at £2,000,000, to replace a system built 5 years ago for £250,000.
I took a sideways move along with half the team when we all saw we were going nowhere and we'd all been doing it for too long. Still in IT, but now I have a career path again, this time in the testing team.
I hope for a fun and rich game where expansions bring in additional, well tested
, functionality. I'm concerned by the amount of complexity some people are wanting in from the start. Anyone who has worked on a lot of projects should know how doomed a project will be if you bite off more than you can chew in the initial launch.
