Lining up Ducks

This past weekend the tech team completed a hardware upgrade, doubling the Portal’s capacity. We’re now able to support over 10,000 concurrent users. We can probably handle more, but we ran out of ‘virtual users’ for our load tests.

Hopefully I can get back to business as usual. I’m looking to recruit someone to manage the Portal full-time so I can pay more attention to the other areas I’m responsible for:  I’m working to develop and release a communications plan to market our self-service capabilities, an update to our language strategy, a project to align the interface layers of our internally-developed products (which will no doubt have impact on our vendor products), replacing the Portal’s native app messaging tools with a web services model for displaying actionable workflow messages from the integrated applications on the Portal as well as sending an alert flag to the corporate intranet home page, and a few other bits and pieces that have been suffering from benign neglect.

Time for more coffee.