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Busy but not exhausting
Mar. 5th, 2022 08:04 amA good week where I made a couple of breakthroughs, but nothing exceptional.
I'm sure I've mentioned before that we want to use Azure DevOps for one of our projects but I've felt somewhere between a pinball bouncing around between people and a koi carp swimming in circles. This week I had a brainwave that was also a real 'doh!' moment - but none of the other people involved had thought of it either. The thing I kept stumbling over was 'who has what licenses?' - this week I asked the handful of people who need immediate access to the DevOps 'project' (terminology NOT helpful here) to see if they could a) access ADO at all and b) if they could create a 'project'. Why did I not think of this before?! I now know exactly who needs what and have asked our purchasing manager to organise it. Simples!
The other thing was having another poke at PowerBI, which can do some very interesting reporty type things but really doesn't quite do what I want it to do. Or I'm too stuck in 'My Spreadsheet Report Looks Like This So My PBI Report Should Too' thinking. So, not really a breakthrough as such but an increase in understanding.
And I'm doing a 31-day weight loss programme for women over 50 with a YouTuber. Not sure I'll actually lose weight as such (I don't know exactly what I weigh because no scales, so can't do an accurate calorie count - which always sounds like an enormous faff, anyway), but should be stronger and fitter by the end at least. It was also a good excuse for new exercise gear :D
My real 'issue' at the moment is that I'm not finding time for writing :(
And that's all for now. Catch you next Saturday!
I'm sure I've mentioned before that we want to use Azure DevOps for one of our projects but I've felt somewhere between a pinball bouncing around between people and a koi carp swimming in circles. This week I had a brainwave that was also a real 'doh!' moment - but none of the other people involved had thought of it either. The thing I kept stumbling over was 'who has what licenses?' - this week I asked the handful of people who need immediate access to the DevOps 'project' (terminology NOT helpful here) to see if they could a) access ADO at all and b) if they could create a 'project'. Why did I not think of this before?! I now know exactly who needs what and have asked our purchasing manager to organise it. Simples!
The other thing was having another poke at PowerBI, which can do some very interesting reporty type things but really doesn't quite do what I want it to do. Or I'm too stuck in 'My Spreadsheet Report Looks Like This So My PBI Report Should Too' thinking. So, not really a breakthrough as such but an increase in understanding.
And I'm doing a 31-day weight loss programme for women over 50 with a YouTuber. Not sure I'll actually lose weight as such (I don't know exactly what I weigh because no scales, so can't do an accurate calorie count - which always sounds like an enormous faff, anyway), but should be stronger and fitter by the end at least. It was also a good excuse for new exercise gear :D
My real 'issue' at the moment is that I'm not finding time for writing :(
And that's all for now. Catch you next Saturday!
