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Getting back into the swing of things
Jan. 15th, 2022 08:49 amThis week I managed to wake up early enough to do some work on the 70x700 novel that definitely wasn't my Nano for 2021. Which reminds me - I haven't finished editing the original 70x700 stories... I will go back to that when I'm done with the planning for the new thing. Yes. Definitely!
I also managed to do my actual job! In one instance, it was advising on a minimum set up for a piece of work that isn't really a project on our side because the supplier is running everything but where we want to have SOMETHING to measure against. In the other, it was getting our second PM into the mindset of what our processes and documents are, what we need for a project to go smoothly, and how I can help. Unlike my line manager who is used to having project support in place and, therefore, knows how to make use of me, the other PM was used to doing everything themselves. They've run a couple of pieces of work that haven't gone very smoothly, at least in part because they weren't well defined at the start AND lacked governance.
So, as well as being available for help and guidance, I'm also going to be harrying them to get this stuff in place. Starting with getting myself invited to meetings. It might still be very early in the process, but the more I know, the more I can help! It's also a piece of work that has stakeholders with at least two sets of requirements, so has the potential to pull the poor PM in different directions, hence the need for structure and governance! Oh, and we're going to use it as a test bed for DevOps, which means a different way of working for our devs. Yeah, it's a doozy >D
But it also provides lots of opportunities for me to build up the evidence for my regrade! Every cloud...
I've been watching 'Around the World in 80 Days' with David Tennant as Phileas Fogg. I've never read the book or seen an adaptation before, so had no idea what to expect. I suspect Miss Fix isn't quite so feminist in the original - if she's there at all.
I'm also watching 'The Tourist' - Jamie Dolan is very good at playing the everyman who has not just a dark side but a yawning abyss! I haven't watched the '50 Shades' films but I thought he was brilliant in 'The Fall'.
And last night I picked 'Inception' over '27 Dresses'! And the more I think about it, the more ambiguous I find the ending - which is annoying because I want my initial reaction to be the right one!!!
Oh, and I'm very slowly reading 'Angela's Ashes'. Not sure why it's a struggle, but it is.
I also managed to do my actual job! In one instance, it was advising on a minimum set up for a piece of work that isn't really a project on our side because the supplier is running everything but where we want to have SOMETHING to measure against. In the other, it was getting our second PM into the mindset of what our processes and documents are, what we need for a project to go smoothly, and how I can help. Unlike my line manager who is used to having project support in place and, therefore, knows how to make use of me, the other PM was used to doing everything themselves. They've run a couple of pieces of work that haven't gone very smoothly, at least in part because they weren't well defined at the start AND lacked governance.
So, as well as being available for help and guidance, I'm also going to be harrying them to get this stuff in place. Starting with getting myself invited to meetings. It might still be very early in the process, but the more I know, the more I can help! It's also a piece of work that has stakeholders with at least two sets of requirements, so has the potential to pull the poor PM in different directions, hence the need for structure and governance! Oh, and we're going to use it as a test bed for DevOps, which means a different way of working for our devs. Yeah, it's a doozy >D
But it also provides lots of opportunities for me to build up the evidence for my regrade! Every cloud...
I've been watching 'Around the World in 80 Days' with David Tennant as Phileas Fogg. I've never read the book or seen an adaptation before, so had no idea what to expect. I suspect Miss Fix isn't quite so feminist in the original - if she's there at all.
I'm also watching 'The Tourist' - Jamie Dolan is very good at playing the everyman who has not just a dark side but a yawning abyss! I haven't watched the '50 Shades' films but I thought he was brilliant in 'The Fall'.
And last night I picked 'Inception' over '27 Dresses'! And the more I think about it, the more ambiguous I find the ending - which is annoying because I want my initial reaction to be the right one!!!
Oh, and I'm very slowly reading 'Angela's Ashes'. Not sure why it's a struggle, but it is.
