It's my Friday
Well, I'm at the end of my last day of work for the week. So far, this part time thing is working out great :)
So what did I accomplish this week? Met a bunch of people on the team (super-important for a PM), got through a few modules of an online training course for SMS 2003, read a few more chapters of The Book and the CPD Guide, looked at a bunch of documents on how our team's processes work, went to a few meetings and got my office partially set up. Not bad for 3 days.
The thing I am most excited about is that my "studying" is already paying off. I went to a meeting where some design changes were being discussed and for several of the items I could actually follow the discussion. This was very encouraging to me, as it usually takes me a few weeks to get to that point where the jargon and acronyms start making sense. I guess I'm finally getting enough experience to see that most software projects are very similar and there are consistent "themes" in all the products I've worked on here at Microsoft.
I do have one meeting to attend tomorrow - a lot of "getting started" information about the SMS SDK. I'll be attending by phone since Thursday is one of my days off, but since the subject matter is important to me, I'm not too worried about it. Plus I can attend in my PJs, with sleeping dogs on the floor next to me, and no one will be any wiser. (unless they've read this blog, of course!)
So who's actually reading this? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Leave me a comment to let me know this isn't going off into the great Internet Recycle Bin!!