That was actually necessary. We don't want to build a huge backlog.
I still have some fears about what is going to happen after the
holidays. My experience is that things pick up slowly after the New
Year. So we have another week or so until go back to their normal rates.
Even then, I don't know what is going to happen. Will people hold back
changes because of the instability of the project? Or will things
continue as before? I was disposing of around 50 changes per week for
much of last year. To get that done with a consistent level of quality,
we will need clear workflow requirements and some automated help.
I spent about a half a day every day dealing with changes.
If things go back to a rate like that, we cannot allow a backlog to
build up.. not even for one week. So I suspect we will have to take
some exceptional measures like this until we are fully ready.
Greg
