First Full Day in The New Space
Well today has been a whirlwind of activity. It's the first full day in the new space and there are a lot of things that aren't quite right. I had the benefit of unpacking over the weekend, so I'm ready to go, but there are a lot of people with issues ranging from "not too bad" to "pretty serious" and there is a small army of support folks here to make sure that we can trade today out of the new space.
At the same time, today I'm doing a lot of application changes and re-configurations that is supposed to help the London folks better manage their risk. Will it? Not sure. They say it will, so I'm doing it, but in the end, I've often wondered if these kinds of changes are really proven to be worth it, or if they just believe they need it, and want to see it and play with it to see if it really lives up to the hope.
It's about thinking about what's really needed as opposed to simply doing something with the hope that it's going to be good enough to get the job done. If not, then try again. While it's possible to achieve success like this, it's also just as likely that you'll take enough 'stabs' at the problem that it'll be dead. It should only be a last resort - not a preferred way of development and design (which is to say no design).
But I'm not being asked to correct these problems - only update the apps. So I shake my head and wonder how many of these I can send to The Daily WTF before I'm found out.