Enthusiasm

Today’s focus was on something that honestly I shouldn’t even be talking about vaguely. Let’s just say it’s a new product that focuses on some high level functionality in the domain. We talked about the supporting technologies and what business partners we would ally with to make that happen. About half way through the day we broke up into a technical discussion on arhcitecture and a business focused discussion for the business type folks. The architecture discussion obviously was very technical and we discussed different architectual approaches on how we could build this RIGHT while also delivering it to market very quickly. We developed a very rough overview before recapping some of the goals we needed to achieve before the end of the week from the technical side.

Again hours felt like they flew by in minutes and before we knew it we were heading out to dinner again. This time we decided to hit Henry’s downtown since it was St. Patty’s Day. We did a fair amount of drinking and we tried to focus on team building, getting to know each other better, and celebrating a successful summit (the main summit was the first 2 days, the technical folks are the one’s who are focused the rest of the week). Got to hear a lot of stories, good juicy ones from Tim Dore about the old days, Don, Pre-Dolphin, and Dolphin. Got to spend a good bit of time with Jim Wilmsen which was fantastic getting to know him and letting him get to know me.

Once I had enough beer (liquid courage / stupidity) I also prodded Andrew a bit about his comments at the end of the work day yesterday. He told me about how Kim Brown had mentioned my name as a possible asset for Project Management because I have those skills. Apprently she made this comment as recently as 2-3 months ago. I was kinda shocked by this because I had assumed that I had fallen completely off her radar. Need to noodle on that one for a while…

On our way out, talked with Michael a bit about TFS and his comments / excitement about TFS. I’m glad to have another ally helping push good, proper, agile use of that tool. He has great Agile development experience and can help lay appropriate guidelines to making it happen. He also threw me a bone as to my role on the new project coming down the pipe. It was mentioned that I might be doing something similar in contribution to that project than what I’ve been doing on ecoAsset. Does that mean development management or project management? Does this support Andrew’s comments about Project Management? Hmmmm… we’ll see.