Achievements this week included: - surviving the monsoon conditions at our street party for Liz with good, solid British stoicism - getting some great insight into the gaming industry with a colleague from Microsoft Studios - a fantastic day at the BizSpark European Summit, listening to start ups, investors, and other interesting types - some … Continue reading Weeknote 102: jubilee
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Achievements this week included: - helping to start implementing a new team structure, and my new role - a good day spent in Old Street at Reasons to be Appy - many conversations started about the world of Marketing and Apps... - ... and many more booked in the diary - surviving the annual staff … Continue reading Weeknote 101: the one that people are scared of…
Achievements this week included: - booking lunch with a Baroness - further shaping of plans for the year ahead - a productive cross-company manager's forum - a reasonable volume of blogging - writing hash tags on a coffee cup to prove a social media point Next week: the jollity that is calibration.
Achievements this week included: - further new financial year planning - thoughts on a workshop for fellow members of the management team - running a couple of enjoyable sessions at the ITDF - attending a stack more - and some great conversations with IT leaders from across the UK about where IT goes next - … Continue reading Weeknote 99: sea legs
Achievements this week included: - planning for how we think in terms of new industries, not just apps - a day at a windows 8 camp - a fascinating day thinking about the UK IT Skills Market Next week: 200 (mostly men) on a boat
Achievements this week included: - continuing the new year planning process - starting conversations within the team about our two-year vision - getting ITDF work wrapped up - plans for a Future of IT presentation at the Cloud World Forum - and another for UK housing associations in the autumn - finally got my hands … Continue reading Weeknote 97: mobilising
Achievements this week included:OK - a great day with our new boss Anand - beginnings of planning for the new financial year - kicking off my mission to get the whole UK DPE team living Windows 8 - plans for getting out to talk about Windows 8 with people who want to know (if you … Continue reading Weeknote 96: New beginnings
Spending the week on the Normandy coast has brought home not only the sheer carnage of what happened here in the later stages of the Second World War, but also the incredible achievements of the allies in creating artificial ports and then shipping them across the channel. All, as my mum delighted in noting, without … Continue reading Weeknote 95: Normandy
Achievements this week included:- getting a process around apps generation in place- good meetings with various folk in London on Monday & Tuesday- input into new competency frameworks in development at the momentNext week (and the week after) - I'm on holiday! Will be using the fortnight as an opportunity to pick out some blog … Continue reading Weeknote 94 – now that’s what I call a good Friday
Achievements on my 52nd week at Microsoft included: - trained up in how to deal with journalists (about bloomin' time, some may argue) - getting the slides together for the ITDF presentation (not due for a month, but with holidays and so on there's no time like the present) - great conversations with devs attending … Continue reading Weeknote 93: first anniversary
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