... since my last post.
The main reason is that I in March 2008 sold my company Enzym to the larger company 1508 A/S, and I’ve been very busy since then. I’m not going to explain all of the reasons why my business partner Jan and I decided to sell, but it was all positive; there were no troubles or so behind the decision. Jan and I are still great friends...
One of the main reasons was that we wanted to grapple with some larger Sitecore projects and installation than Enzyms size allowed. We simply didn’t have the backoffice required to sign the deals we had an idea our skills could handle.
Since we joined 1508 A/S I’ve had the pleasure of working on a lot of projects of this size, including Danish Ministry of Education (Public Sitecore site of the year 2009), The Capital Region of Denmark, The Danish Metalworkers and many others.
Another reason was that we had some ideas about how to structure the development of larger multi developer Sitecore projects.
Since I joined the development department in 1508 A/S as Head of Development, we have reorganized the entire process (including project start, development, test and launch). Don’t think that I have done this by my self – not even close. Some of the brilliant people I work with have done most of the implementation – by far. However it is a very big gratification to have some ideas, use some time to lay out the general guidelines, see it implemented, and finally have the ideas confirmed. Our processes were optimized in a way we had only dreamt of – both in time consumption and in the increased job satisfaction.
Actually the ideas was also confirmed when I in the beginning of October was at the Sitecore Partner Seminar 2009. Thomas Eldblom (some of you might know him already - Core Technology Manager and Partner at Pentia A/S) presented their Professional Services and how they had implemented continuous integration in their Sitecore development setup. What they have done is very similar to what we have done – or what was on our roadmap already.
I’m thinking of writing a blogpost describing how we’ve reorganized – promise it won’t be long. Stay tuned...