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
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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
Achievements this week included: - a great day spent at a Yorkshire sewerage works, interviewing potential IT graduates (maybe not the way the organisers would bill it ;o)) - a great morning spent at Aldersgate witnessing one of our IT Camps in progress (Hyper-V virtualisation technology) - finding some time to think and write Next … Continue reading Weeknote 92: oop north (and other stories)
Achievements this week included: - just about staying awake long enough on any one day (bar Monday) to actually get some work done. Yucky virus passed on from the kids... - completed a final version of Developer Journeys work which will now feed into the new financial year planning processes - some interesting thoughts about … Continue reading Weeknote 91: battling viruses
Achievements this week included: - getting my head around the MS IT version of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview - continuing to get people to buy into the developer journey concept - making a couple of connections to get more ideas on Green Field IT concept - great conversation with Matt @ Berg London - … Continue reading Weeknote 90: getting to grips with a new OS
Achievements this week included: - getting up and running on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (you can too at http://preview.windows.com/ - that's my corporate citizen duty done for the week!) - many discussions about the ways in which we resource activities in the next few months - catch ups with a few former colleagues - … Continue reading Weeknote 89: a week of releases
I'm off on a short break tomorrow, so a day early here are achievements this week: - some good progress on writing about consumer development approaches to business systems development - completion of the team's mid year performance review meetings - a great management team offsite, including conversations with Matt from http://www.bergcloud.com/ - good progress … Continue reading Weeknote 88: a “technical” Friday
Achievements this week included: - finding a new slant for my IT/Consumerisation/Apps work - talking to more people about journeys for developers (and how we can improve what we are doing as a result) - some great conversations with the team during mid-year review sessions - an interesting evening spend with some interims (many of … Continue reading Weeknote 87: positive reinforcement
Achievements this week included: - beginning the mid-financial-year team performance reviews - starting to talk people through some work about equipping devs to produce apps - planning work for the second half of the financial year - and juggling two children, one virus and two working parents (again). Sheesh. Next week: mostly: more performance reviews.
