When someone gets allocated to a project here at Cap One, it's never really set in stone how long you might be 'on' it due to the nature of the amount of waterfall-based packages of work in progress. The idea of Agile is, the core team is exactly that – a core team of uninterruptable individuals working together using high bandwidth communications to just get stuff done. There was all kinds of signoff and understanding that no-one would be pulled from an Agile project, everyone up on high agreed that it would neeeever happen.

Well, it just did. There's 3 people in my team with Middleware skills – me and 2 others. I've been regarded as something of an SME the past year or so now since my immediate manager left, but have stepped aside to allow others work on MW stuff to keep the team well cross skilled. One of those 2 others has just resigned, and the other is going on holiday for 2.5 weeks this Friday.

So, it looks like I'm on this Middleware project now for at least 2 weeks. I have 2 days to get up to speed on this thing, and work out how to fix it and hopefully make some things better too.

In other news, house move went as well as can be expected. Things still need a lot of shifting, but we'll get there.