Very busy at work yesterday and today, but I wanted to take a moment to thank Steph for dropping by SIS yesterday to deliver a guest lecture to my web design & mgmt class. Her description of web production provided a good balance to my higher-level, somewhat academic (read:abstract) description of the process.

While I'm sure it did made some of the students nervous, it is far better that they approach web development, and especially the role of project manager, with their eyes open, aware of the challenges they are likely to face.

I also appreciated Steph's emphasis on the human aspects of the web development process, something that is easy to forget when looking at process diagrams and flow charts. I made a note to myself to try to work more of this into future iterations of the course.

There is a *lot* of web talent in Montreal, and I'd like to find ways to form connections between students and the local web scene. Guest lecturing is one way of doing this, but I'm sure there are others. Something to work on in the coming months.