A project at my company goes through these phases:
1. Analysis, Design, Documentation
2. Development
3. Testing
4. Production

I just finished my big, fancy, secret project’s development cycle and moved into testing. Now I get to sit back and work a relaxed 40-hour week while the testers get all uppity and excited and overworked, while I grace their screens with the vivid splendor of my big, fancy, secret project (which looks really nice imho).

Now all I have to do is update the existing documentation to reflect all the changes that got made during development; make some pretty Visio flowcharts and diagrams for management, and move on to the next big thing.

The next big thing is threefold: Handicap accessibility, fixing bugs found in test phase, and some Java project the boss’s boss wants us to work on. I don’t know a bit of Java, but my C# knowledge will help with the basic syntax and overall structure. However, I forsee myself spending alot of time looking for Java’s equivalent of alot of methods and objects I’d normally find within the System namespace.

So while I’m booked through early 2008, at least it’s not a crunch-time pace like the past couple weeks. Plus it leaves me pretty confident my contract will be renewed when it expires this Christmas.