Sympathy, please!
Mar. 19th, 2022 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlilyI've come down with a cold :( But my flu jab is doing it's job and it's probably more a 48-hour thing than a week-long one.
Work-wise, the week was productive with LOTS being done on resourcing the Roadmap and planning it against the current portfolio. We even talked about rolling some individual projects into programmes! We'll be a 3PMO before we know it! Just as I'm reading articles about PMOs being called something else... Most of the number crunching was done by my line manager but I helped out here and there.
I've also pinched one of my work templates (hey - they're MY templates!) to use as a 'final report' on ToG and used my morning writing slot to chip away at it. It's really interesting to map the whole thing out and see what we did - and to trace the beginning of the end. It was definitely the pre-Christmas lockdown last year, I think. We were beginning to engage with the garden group in-person, but they didn't join us when we pivoted back to on-line, so when we went back to in-person, they felt no real connection to us. They join in if they happen to be around and have time, but they have no real bond with us.
The success story, though, is the member who joined because they were curious about all things religious and used us as a way of finding out more. Not only do they now regularly attend church but they are looking at starting something up with the garden group! ToG has provided a seed bed for them to grow in - now they are ready to branch out on their own. And yes, I can keep the gardening metaphors coming all day :D
And the big un-success story has been accessibility for the person who uses a wheelchair. The building we use IS accessible - when the doors are open, and getting them open before the person arrived was sometimes a challenge. Ironically, they are now ALWAYS open because of the garden group - but the person is still self-isolating because they have a suppressed immune system. NOW the problem is getting the tech to work to provide a hybrid offering! *facepalm* Still, I've learned to think more broadly about 'accessibility', so it counts as self-development.
Right, time for my exercises before the shopping arrives!
Work-wise, the week was productive with LOTS being done on resourcing the Roadmap and planning it against the current portfolio. We even talked about rolling some individual projects into programmes! We'll be a 3PMO before we know it! Just as I'm reading articles about PMOs being called something else... Most of the number crunching was done by my line manager but I helped out here and there.
I've also pinched one of my work templates (hey - they're MY templates!) to use as a 'final report' on ToG and used my morning writing slot to chip away at it. It's really interesting to map the whole thing out and see what we did - and to trace the beginning of the end. It was definitely the pre-Christmas lockdown last year, I think. We were beginning to engage with the garden group in-person, but they didn't join us when we pivoted back to on-line, so when we went back to in-person, they felt no real connection to us. They join in if they happen to be around and have time, but they have no real bond with us.
The success story, though, is the member who joined because they were curious about all things religious and used us as a way of finding out more. Not only do they now regularly attend church but they are looking at starting something up with the garden group! ToG has provided a seed bed for them to grow in - now they are ready to branch out on their own. And yes, I can keep the gardening metaphors coming all day :D
And the big un-success story has been accessibility for the person who uses a wheelchair. The building we use IS accessible - when the doors are open, and getting them open before the person arrived was sometimes a challenge. Ironically, they are now ALWAYS open because of the garden group - but the person is still self-isolating because they have a suppressed immune system. NOW the problem is getting the tech to work to provide a hybrid offering! *facepalm* Still, I've learned to think more broadly about 'accessibility', so it counts as self-development.
Right, time for my exercises before the shopping arrives!
