Developing Responsibility
This past weekend, all of the product development teams as SciQuest came in on Saturday morning for one of the three release days each year. This ritual helps those building the site feel greater ownership of it and responsibility for their work over the past several months. There are many ways to help foster this personal connection to the end product, but I have found this to be one of the more effective ones out there. On that day, at that time, we all must be present to verify our latest changes are correctly applied to the live, production system. When we sign off, we are putting our names on the line both as a source of pride at what we've accomplished and a sense of ownership of the results. Today, across the country and beyond SciQuest customers will be using new code and functionality that has been carefully developed and validated by us. The details of the release can be found in the Release Library . One other new means of instilling responsibility in the develo