I’m trying to get back in the habit of weeknoting, but I can’t be too specific about the work, so this is the random thoughts I’m dwelling on this week: Progress. Palpable progress this week, it feels good! Not only that but being able to see a semblence of structure emerging. Pitching Selling your wares is a constant thing where I am at the moment, honing those ‘sales’ skills of picking valuable leads, assessing whats a goer or not quickly is a real art....
Continuing the effort of chucking down end of the week thoughts, as an attempt to keep up the weeknote habit, without talking about specifics of the day job. Week 2, go me! Things on my mind at the end of this week: Future of delivery management Heard this week that the BBC are getting rid of their entire delivery management function, which pissed me right off. But after a few days of feeling angry, I became more reflective:...
I’m back at work this month, I’ve found weeknoting this year difficult due to balancing clients comfort with open notes. The situation is unlikely to change in the near future. The thing I miss the most about the process is getting things that are looping around my brain down on paper and in public, this is because: It gets it out of my brain before the weekend! Writing helps me order swirly thoughts People more intelligent than me usually chip in with ideas and answers I haven’t thought of!...
I’ve been a bit naff keeping up the weeknotes cadence in September so attempting a Month note. PD has a bibliography of common phrases, one of them is “laptop in the pond” that feeling when you get to the end of the week and just want to not look at a screen for a while. That’s partially why my cadence has dropped off,publishing to my blog is a bit of a faff....
So funemployment is over. I’m back doing work and it’s straight in at the deep end as the client engagement kicked off this week too. This week has been all the usual things of getting a large project moving, meeting people, establishing ways of working, chasing accounts, setting up how we’re going to track all the things we need to do. My role is delivery lead (not engagement manager) as I stated last week, so I’m working out how to balance myself to support the 4 teams that are merging on the project, help them to be successful, and keep track of deliverables we’ve signed up to....