Wednesday, April 25, 2007

More pictures

There are team member pictures missing.

If your picture appears here and you're unhappy that there's an omission of someone else's picture, then it's easily rectified. You know how to get in touch.

The team

Parry


Mark


Tim


Roz


Chris


Rishi


Brendan - looking worried


Haven't a clue who this is.


Reiner


Neil


Christian

Acronyms

We invented some new acronyms in last weeks Requirements Matrix workshop. I feel that acronym proliferation is a key role for any employee of a large organisation:

TBD - Too Bloody Difficult

AIB - Am I Bovvered

TBD was used to categorise items that would have extended the timing of the project beyond something that was reasonable.

AIB was used to categorise items that wouldn't provide the consumer or the content author with any discernible benefit.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Bringing it all together

I feel exhausted.

I've just come through a three day process during which we took all of the requirements gathered so far and sifted and sorted and thrifted and ordered.


I feel I've been bludgeoned by a baseball bat. Actually that's a little unfair. It's just been a very intense few days with a lot of discussion, argument and decision making.

Mark reckons we're the best team he's ever worked with. Neil tells me we've managed to get through a lot of work and we've worked effectively. Christian is impressed with the outcome of the meeting.

So I should feel really good but I just feel tired and drained. I do feel good that we are in good shape for the next Project Review Board next week but I think I'll be getting an early night tonight.

Monday, April 9, 2007

A trip to Germany

I had a really productive meeting with the Ford Germany, Wunderman Germany, FCSD Europe.

They had done a lot of preparation for the meeting which is great because all of that hard work can be fed directly into the Wunderman central team's work.

Much of the requirements that were very detailed were done from a web author's point of view. The great news was that most of the requirements are already planned.

I also had the opportunity to present some of Brendan's presentation that was used in EuroDisney. The feeling I got was that my audience were really pleased with the plans we have in place for the new system.