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Looking forward to Friday
Sep. 26th, 2024 09:51 pmNo baby cuddles this week - stoopid meetings - but at least I'll be at home.
Progress has been made on the PMF. It's been a real collaborative effort and I'm very proud of us all for all pulling in the same direction. I did get a question about why we would raise change requests during Dev & Test... <_< When else are you going to raise them? You've signed off the scope so you know what is being developed - anything over and above the scope is a change request, which has to be assessed and either approved or rejected. When I explained this, the penny dropped. But the PM in question felt the wording suggested you HAD to raise change requests, so I modified it a bit to make it clear they're purely optional >D
We also got one of the PMs through the stage gates on all their projects except one - and that's only because they're in the midst of a procurement and can't actually move on to Dev & Test. But they'll be racing through the gate once the product is selected.
The IT element of another project is pretty much done, so I'm looking to shut down the governance and reporting on that ASAP. And I'm still hoping to get out of doing minutes for the reorg work - the 'project board' is being run as part of the regular meeting at the exec level, so why can't their secretary do it? It's only minutes! And it's the least IT project of any of them, so I'm really struggling to see why I'm really involved - except, of course, I'm the most PMO PMO in the organisation.
Yet another reason why the PMO should be a central function *heavy sigh*
And I'm racing through the character charts, now. I did the really obnoxious character today, who is partly based on someone I know IRL but is even more obnoxious.
And I watched another episode of New Amsterdam and... I'm not as sold on it as I was. Everything goes right, no matter how whacky the thing they're trying to do. I dunno... Things always seem to work out well in The Rookie, too - but there at least feels like there's more of an obstacle to overcome.
Right, time to be heading for bed. Catch you tomorrow, DW!
Progress has been made on the PMF. It's been a real collaborative effort and I'm very proud of us all for all pulling in the same direction. I did get a question about why we would raise change requests during Dev & Test... <_< When else are you going to raise them? You've signed off the scope so you know what is being developed - anything over and above the scope is a change request, which has to be assessed and either approved or rejected. When I explained this, the penny dropped. But the PM in question felt the wording suggested you HAD to raise change requests, so I modified it a bit to make it clear they're purely optional >D
We also got one of the PMs through the stage gates on all their projects except one - and that's only because they're in the midst of a procurement and can't actually move on to Dev & Test. But they'll be racing through the gate once the product is selected.
The IT element of another project is pretty much done, so I'm looking to shut down the governance and reporting on that ASAP. And I'm still hoping to get out of doing minutes for the reorg work - the 'project board' is being run as part of the regular meeting at the exec level, so why can't their secretary do it? It's only minutes! And it's the least IT project of any of them, so I'm really struggling to see why I'm really involved - except, of course, I'm the most PMO PMO in the organisation.
Yet another reason why the PMO should be a central function *heavy sigh*
And I'm racing through the character charts, now. I did the really obnoxious character today, who is partly based on someone I know IRL but is even more obnoxious.
And I watched another episode of New Amsterdam and... I'm not as sold on it as I was. Everything goes right, no matter how whacky the thing they're trying to do. I dunno... Things always seem to work out well in The Rookie, too - but there at least feels like there's more of an obstacle to overcome.
Right, time to be heading for bed. Catch you tomorrow, DW!
