Team grows by another 33%

Today, another developer joined the team. Looking back, I gotta admit how much the team has grown in the past couple years - and the drastic difference from when I started 6.5 years ago.

Thinking back, it was quite funny - Erica and I being the newly hired QA/developer, plus Michael our main TS. That's pretty much our whole team (neither Erica and Michael is 100%, and I wasn't suppose to be full time on this team as well). I still remember calling our team one of the smallest team (if not *the* smallest team) in the whole company. Deadlines are especially *fun* of course, since we always have to scramble for PQA resources. I am still puzzled how we manage to pull several releases with such level of resources.... hahaha...

When Brian joined in 2006, which made things a bit better. Unfortunately with the departure of Konphused and the moving of our team to another division, we were back to square one with me being the only developer again. At the same time, things really got hectic as the dashboard was starting to take off. Fortunately, Ru joined the team late 2008/early 2009 - but it was still a crazy dev cycle.

The golden triangle was formed mid-2009 when Chris joined. After 6 years, we finally have enough people so our projects are "self sufficient" in terms of PQA. Well... Almost. Now that we have another member, that should give us a bit more wiggle room and our future project plans a bit smoother.

I just hope that we don't scare him away.