Today was a unique day for the IT team. We all agreed to start at 9am, and start diving in to the Campus Movement Tracker. It took about an hour and a half to get everyone set up to the point that they had the CMT running on their local computer -- that's actually fairly good to get all the database and dependencies set up for 7 developers.

Our next task was simple yet very open-ended: learn as much about the CMT as we could. I bought a few whiteboards and got people to look at different aspects: database relations, page layout, permissions and roles, groups, scheduler.

In the afternoon I needed to do some staff work, so left two in charge and let the group go at it. Tomorrow we debrief what we found. Should be interesting.

I think the guys are enjoying getting in to things that will actually reach our staff and students. They've been faithfully learning our technologies, a necessary step, but there's something motivating about working on production projects.

Tomorrow we have "project fun" time in the evening and we're going bowling!

Oh, I'm also getting them to rank a number of jobs by preference. If you're curious, you can see that list of jobs here.