That Sinking Feeling...

I have been keeping my head down and getting some significant work done over the last few week. While the project person worked on the schedule the rest of the technical team just worked and got quite a bit done. We still have quite a bit to do but everyone has been making excellent progress. Due to all of this I thought that we were over the worst of the administrative nightmares. Boy, was I wrong. No matter how we work the schedule it works out that we will finish sometime in mid - late October; depends on the user testing. Found out today that it is not acceptable; we need to be completely done by October 1st. In addition the majority of the technical team will be moving on to another project on the same date. All of this puts me in a difficult position; I am going to have to give it some serious thought. I am not sure just what I am going to do in October myself.

Some of the non-technical team has been tasked with doing some help creation for the forms. This involves HTML and XML we is totally foreign to these folks. While I deeply appreciate getting help; I can only image what we are going to get back. Once again we are up against the attitude that everyone is interchangeable regardless of skill set. You would think that we would have learned that lesson before.

So all of this adds up to a project that is heading toward major issues. I know given the proper support we could have built something very useful. I still have hopes that we can produce something that we can be proud of.