>I work for a small government agency in Florida. I am the only IT staff member. The office depends on an application that I have written for it's operation. My boss has become concerned that I am the only one who can support this application. More importantly, he is concerned that if I leave (I have no intentions), or
Die, the office will be left in a lurch.
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>Can anyone recommend suggestions that I can use to alleviate my boss' concerns about application support. He is considering moving the office to a canned program. While this does have benefits in the area of support, it will cause major upheaval/stress for all employees, and our in-house application is tailored to our office and can be changed to suit our whims. Certainly someone has encountered similar problems before.
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>Thanks much, Steve.
Steve,
I had 2 types of apps in my former work.
1) All source code is sealed and no other supporter. They've been working for years w/o a support need. Ain't broke no fix.
2) While developing the apps I worked with others together and they can 'touch' the apps.
Also there was a third one :
3) Contracted to give the full source code. I did give and they have VFP coders. It didn't help them and whenever they need to change something still I do it (I should be doing spaghetti code:).
Sounds like your boss could hire new helpers to you :)
Cetin
