Despite my best efforts to catch the flu, it\u2019s looking like Monday morning will bring with it my first working week of 2009 (booooo!). It\u2019s set to be a busy start of the year, with quite a lot of projects and work carrying over from December. As well as the big Enterprise Architecture project I\u2019ve been working on there are a host of smaller things that will be taking up my time.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be following up with Apple and O2 on the iPhone Exchange ActiveSync issues we\u2019ve been seeing. Hopefully now we have some repeatable scenarios we can provide to Apple we\u2019ll be able to help fix the issues.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s some ongoing work to streamline our supply chain for desktop (and laptop) computers. This has been hanging around for months and although nothing is actually \u2018broken\u2019 there\u2019s a general feeling that we can do even better. We should be able to work with our suppliers to cut some slack from the supply process and with any luck cut some costs at the same time. In truth this isn\u2019t strictly my job anymore, but as it\u2019s what I used to look after I\u2019m giving the guys a helping hand. Plus it should put us in really good stead for the Desktop\/Windows 7 work we have pencilled in over the next year.<\/p>\n
By far the most varied \u2013 and time consuming – chunk of work is the ongoing programme of work my team has put together for the remainder of the 2008 FY and 2009. Ensuring the these projects make a successful transition from our drawing board into actual working projects is incredibly important. Our project guys are all pretty good, but there\u2019s a lot of projects to keep track of. One thing we need to do better is to both better publicise \u2013 and \u2018market\u2019 - the roadmap of work coming up (and it\u2019s implications\/benefits) and also ensure the we have a clearer view of the status of the programme and it\u2019s component projects. Again nothing is broken as such, but I\u2019m a stickler for the details and making things better! :) Fortunately some of this ties in nicely with the Enterprise Architecture so I should be able to bring it all together into something more consistent.<\/p>\n
Hopefully I\u2019ll be able to get my hands dirty in a few more technical projects this year as well. Whilst I enjoy the higher level architecture work, I do miss the more immediate satisfaction of getting a script to run or seeing your freshly installed system work for the first time. I won\u2019t get too much time for this, but if I pick the right projects I\u2019ll be able to get stuck in. We\u2019re doing some good work on the development side with Agile working, it\u2019d be great to try and translate some of this into the more infrastructure related projects that are my background.<\/p>\n
So a busy January awaits\u2026 It\u2019s good fun work, but I\u2019m still not looking forward to the alarm clock going off at 6am on Monday! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite my best efforts to catch the flu, it\u2019s looking like Monday morning will bring with it my first working week of 2009 (booooo!). It\u2019s set to be a busy start of the year, with quite a lot of projects and work carrying over from December. As well as the big Enterprise Architecture project I\u2019ve … <\/p>\n