Typically upon review of a week there are two or three items that really stand out to reflect back on, however this week was all about Project-R2. In slightly unusual circumstances, paused my many other roles and donned by consulting hat once more to help this project move along.
Project-R2 is in that exciting discovery phrase where we’re doing lots of meeting, workshops, reading content and accessing systems - essentially, this is looking under every possible rock for things we need to know for the next stage of the project, things that might put risk to that outcome and inevitably a long list of things that need fixing at some point in the future. For some this stage can be a long drag of emotional labour as you read large amounts of content, ask awkward questions and have the deal with the emotions and politics of the organisations involved. To be honest, for me, this was an exciting week. It’s not often I get to play this role any more I’m enjoying getting to poke around into something brand new. I suppose the difference on this occasion is that I have a bit more experience and I am coming within some secondary objectives: what activities need to be done that we might struggle with and activities will be have to do that are reusable capabilities for other customers.
Having spend the week reviewing hundreds of pages of documentation from an incumbent supplier, I am reminded what a skill it is to write good documentation, how important knowledge management and content management are and despite having a few ideas on this subject this is still an area where I need to really focus some time and energy.
📈 - This weeks stats:
- 589 minutes of podcasts
- 3,141 average weekly steps
- 49 book pages read (The Murderbot Diaries: Platform Decay - p24 - p73)
📺 - This weeks background entertainment: