It is Thanksgiving week already. Time just files… It is time to be thankful for a lot of things in life. I will not do justice by touching on everyone and everything, but I am going to give it a try, not in any particular order.

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Most of you know that I continue to be an avid developer. I have also expressed our organizational plan moving forward – low or no code. We are a small institution and have limited staff resources. However, we have realigned our resources in ways that we are still getting a lot done. How? We have shed a lot of the old ways of doing business in ll areas of LTS and in the area of code development, we are coding far less than before. We have an opportunity to do even less with advances in technologies.

I always say that our academic computing colleagues are great examples of those who find strategic uses of technologies to support teaching, learning and research and in predominent number of cases they do not code! They are experts at researching various existing or emerging technologies to see how they fit our institutional culture and practices to help adopt them and support them. The corresponding model in administrative system is business analysts. They are experts who understand the “business” (such as HR, Finance, Registrar, Student Financial Services etc) and try to research how major administrative systems we already have can be used to improve the various business processes and work with the offices to implement them.

This is where tools such as Extend can assist.

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