The festival on the 18th is going to be really juicy.

Often the business side has a good idea of what they want to do, but they might not understand the limitations, and they might not understand the possibilities. Have development and business get together at a very early stage so that you're not investing time and energy going down a wrong path.

The decisions are being fed up the food chain; they're not going to come back and bite you.

Right now a lot of business users are left on their own. Your boss puts you on a project and disappears until it's time to make it live. You have no backup, no guidance, no authority, no support.

If it was something that was juicy and good, we would go to them and say, 'This is potentially questionable. What's your input? What's your thought?' And if there was vehement rejection -- just like, 'I hate this. We can't do it. It's wrong' -- then we would respect the relationship.

It's really great to have the festival here in my hometown,