Weekly Wrapup
It's tough to sum up my work activities in a few paragraphs. But I will try. Some information is better than no information (unless it is taken out of context or misinterpreted. I guess my statement has a lot of exceptions. Oh, well, it's Friday, what do you want from me?).
I must say first of all that I am encouraged by the events of this week. I have been able to accomplish a significant amount of work. Most of my focus has been on Authentication/Authorization/UMD/Identity Management, which is where it belongs. I received a significant amount of information from the engineering team about the requirements for the whole system, and I am in the middle of combining their comments into the PRD that will be released on Wednesday.
Also, I went with Curtis Parker and Doug Law, two of our top experts on UMD and authentication, to DPS to talk to them about how they may want to use the system. It was a very productive and enlightening meeting. We discussed issues that we have not yet addressed, and helped them understand our intentions for the system. At the end of our meeting our new CIO, Val Oveson, stopped in to chat with the group about his ideas. I think Val is the right man for the job right now. He and Windley are both extremely talented guys, but Val is a natural fit into this environment. Anyway, we will be doing more of these "roadshow" things in the near future.
My content management product is languishing somewhat. We have to prove that Teamsite 5.5.2 will work, and that TCO isn't too high for it to be successful. This can only done with and upgrade and a proof-of-concept, which I am depending on Engineering to do for me. In the meantime, my boss has purchased copies of Macromedia Contribute for us to begin creating more product-related content for the ITS sites. No formal workflow or staging, but those are problems that are easy to overcome. Plus, the state gets a break on the already-cheap licensing fee. I'm not saying there isn't a potential for products like Teamsite to be successful, but I am saying that it is silly to limit choices to the agencies.
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