Thimbles & Care

Even if we do continue to develop our own applications in-house, that doesn’t mean we can take a “business as usual” attitude. To keep up with our competition and continue serving the University, we have to constantly reevaluate our tools and practices.

One of the ways that our development culture seems to have changed over the past decade is that we now seem much more risk-averse than we were. I don’t see this change as positive: the only way to guarantee you won’t fail is to never try to do anything, but that’s just a failure of another sort. You can’t push ahead without going where you haven’t gone before. If we really want to continue to build our own administrative systems, we need to recover a tolerance for mistakes.