project management software
In San Francisco the tech community is quite a
tight knit
community. Since the technology boom of
the nineties, San
Francisco has been the place to be
if you want to start up or network
a new web based
community or project. I grew up right outside of the
city
and went to college right here in the city for
the newest major the
art institute had to offer,
graphic design. When I told my parents
that I had
chosen graphic design as my major, they looked at me
like
I was from another planet. They had never seen a
computer, and if I
had brought one to their house,
they probably would have thought it
was a new tv even
if I tried to explain what it was.
I
wouldn't go so far as to say that I shared my
parents' fear because I
knew about the small burst of
life in the new industry and had not
wasted any time
after college jumping straight in to the job market.
This
was a time when the idea of a network was still
foreign to most
people outside of the business world.
I got a job designing project
management software for
a large company. I worked in
between the giant Mac
and Windows giants to try and design a new project
management
software that would allow for the vast
networks that we
have today in every major
corporation. The work we were doing then
has since
shaped the way that every single business on the
planet
functions in the digital world. Some of our
recommendations
have since been used in the design of
programs for all of the major
software companies, and
we were working out of a four room commercial
office
in San Francisco. That seems to be a common theme in
the
digital world; the biggest companies or ideas,
grow out of the most
unbelievable places. Now our
ideas allow for solely web
based project management
and the idea of remote project
tracking. These are
tools that seem common to us
today, but when I was
just starting out, they were fanciful ideas
that the
idealistic ones in the office had kicked around at the
water
cooler. It's weird to look at any computer and
say that if it
weren't for me, that would be a
different picture.