Feel the Pain

What a wonderful meeting today. We had the first set of discussions with the last two areas to review their InfoPath forms. It seems they don't like the way the data is related and summarized for all the other areas and decided to do it differently. They are insistent that this is the way they are going to do it. It totally kills they entire structure of the application. We are going to have meetings for the next two days to try and figure out what we are going to do. Just to add to the fun another area is getting all hot to do it the same way. This will add weeks to the development time. I know as developers we need to be flexible (I am sick to death of hearing that!!!) but the line has to be drawn somewhere. None of the other areas are organizing the data this way; I wonder if anyone knew this was going on! The way things are going we are going to waste a huge amount of time.

I just don't know yet how we are going to handle this new data relationship. This kind of thing is one thing I simply hate about my job. Users that just go off on their merry way doing what they want without even talking to anyone about the possible impact they are going to have to the overall project. Of course if we the technical folks push back at all they will complain that we don't understand/support their needs. This is going to be a big pissing match and the tech folks are going to be the losers no matter what happens.

On a happier note, I continue to enjoy my PDA. I had ordered a case for it a month ago but due to a backorder situation I have yet to receive it. I had this brand before (EB Cases) and was very impressed with the quality. My new one is scheduled to be here on Thursday. I have made a few tweaks and modifications to the PDA but I have pretty much what I need installed. Once I get further along with my MCSD and get some free time, I am going to play with development for the mobile device. One of the reasons I picked a Pocket PC over a Palm (which I had before) was the ability for me to build apps with Visual Studio.NET.

Well I am going to do some more MCSD studying before bed.