In the spirit of the latter suggestions, something that I could use some help with is managing that collaborative development. My "department" is going to expand to third person soon which means less hands-on coding and more organizing, admin-type stuff.
I think a check-in/out system is going to be necessary to avoid conflicts but I haven't found a simple one yet. I've looked into TortiseSVN (I already use TortiseMerge for checking purposes) but since IT will never give me network access anything like setting up an SVN/Vault server isn't going to fly. Anybody have suggestions, even if its just work practices, for small-scale code and data file management?
Maybe we could spin that off (and other related topics) into a CAD Admin Best Practices Manual "How To Be a Pointy Haired Boss (but in a good way)".