More whiplash
Sep. 17th, 2024 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyThe head-changing-at-supersonic-speed continues. I have a butterfly brain that enjoys flitting from one thing to another, so the variety of my job is a Very Good Thing. But I like to pick the direction, if not the destination, that I'm heading in!
I was chatting to the PM for the transformation project about how I can support it and the most important thing is to know what it's called! Apparently the sponsor isn't too bothered... But this is an organisation-wide initiative that's VERY tightly time-bound. People need to know what's going on. The PM said they'd suggested something like Project Neptune rather than trying to find a way to make the words 'organisation', 'transformation', and 'reorganisation' fit together in a New And Interesting Way, which I thought was a great idea. I threw out Project Butterfly (transformation, lifecycle...?) and Project Mercury (quick, agile, messenger...?) but then we turned to ChatGPT, which suggested Momentum, Ignite and something else I can't remember. The PM is going to run them past the sponsor and see if they'll bite.
On a purely practical level, I don't want to set something up on Teams that I then have to change the name of because it's just a pain. And it has to be something memorable that will provide something for people to rally round.
I'm toying with the idea of taking my issue with the pension fund to the union and/or student union. I'm not currently a member of the union and they're going to be tied up with the transformation project, but it might be something the student union could get behind. But I don't really have an 'in'. Is it usual for a random member of staff who isn't currently a student to raise something with the SU? I just feel it's easy for the uni to brush me off, but they couldn't ignore the students. *sigh*
Poked a bit more at Harding's character sheet. At this rate it's going to take me to 31 October to get him and Patel done!
I was chatting to the PM for the transformation project about how I can support it and the most important thing is to know what it's called! Apparently the sponsor isn't too bothered... But this is an organisation-wide initiative that's VERY tightly time-bound. People need to know what's going on. The PM said they'd suggested something like Project Neptune rather than trying to find a way to make the words 'organisation', 'transformation', and 'reorganisation' fit together in a New And Interesting Way, which I thought was a great idea. I threw out Project Butterfly (transformation, lifecycle...?) and Project Mercury (quick, agile, messenger...?) but then we turned to ChatGPT, which suggested Momentum, Ignite and something else I can't remember. The PM is going to run them past the sponsor and see if they'll bite.
On a purely practical level, I don't want to set something up on Teams that I then have to change the name of because it's just a pain. And it has to be something memorable that will provide something for people to rally round.
I'm toying with the idea of taking my issue with the pension fund to the union and/or student union. I'm not currently a member of the union and they're going to be tied up with the transformation project, but it might be something the student union could get behind. But I don't really have an 'in'. Is it usual for a random member of staff who isn't currently a student to raise something with the SU? I just feel it's easy for the uni to brush me off, but they couldn't ignore the students. *sigh*
Poked a bit more at Harding's character sheet. At this rate it's going to take me to 31 October to get him and Patel done!
