Being relatively new to the world of management I am starting to understand others ffrustrations. Being a small team we are always pretty stretched on both time and workload. Our course management system is expanding exponentially within the the institution and I find that we are fire fighting more and more, our efforts are concentrated on the smooth running of the system rather than the development of it.
Unfortunately, this means that development has to take more of a backseat or we have to specifically set time aside, plug in head phones and shut out the world to get things done. From conversations at various conferences with other colleagues in HE it sounds like we are not alone in this situation, where as other HE's seem to have an abundance of developers to create new weird and wonderful content for their students.
Developing and releasing new content quicker would be fantastic, a bigger team could accomplish this, but i guess its all relative. Obviously in the current climate you need a very good reason for additional staff, is the risk of employing more staff and increasing the team, improving the developments and thus (hopefully) student satisfaction worth the reward to to HE's in general?
I would find it interesting to hear how other SITS development teams function, how big are the teams, how are they organised etc. Is there an acceptable ratio of 1 developer to X amount of students?
Anyway, enough of this deep thought malarkey, I'm off down the pub.... ;)
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