The Never-Ending Sprint, Episode 001

This is the first issue of "The Never-Ending Sprint". This is a weekly comic strip that I started doing last year on the whiteboard in my office, based on funny events that happened while working in a small software company. I took pictures of the whiteboard and posted it on our internal wiki.

Some 33 episodes later, I decided that it was safe to start uploading the strip to the World Wide Internets. To be absolutely safe, I needed to change the names of people and all the names of our clients, so that it could become just a general "Dilbert-style" commentary on life in the software industry, but maybe not quite so cynical.

Since I had to do that anyway, I thought I'd run it through Comic Life and replace my hand-scrawled text with digital captions. This is the result. I will be running one episode each Friday, until someone comes to take me away in a tight white coat with very long sleeves.

My general view of the software industry is that it is somewhat chaotic and crazy, but still one of the most interesting places to be and full of small triumphs to go along with the ever-present large disasters. I love my job and love the people I work with*, so I hope that gets taken into consideration when reading the comic.

* Yes, even the managers.