It's getting better every day
Marshall, who I met through the Speech Server TAP program, has bugged me about my dormant blog a few times now, so here I am with a new post for you. It's embarassing how long it's been since I last posted. Especially since I include a link to this blog in my email signature. And we all know how much email Microsofties send every day. It's amazing.
So here I am, about 3.5 months into my "new" job as an SDK PM for System Center Configuration Manager 2007. Reading over my old posts from my early days on the job has made me realize just how much I have learned in the past few months. It's never as fast as I would like, but really, I'm pretty happy with how far I've gotten.
I wrote my first spec, for the Setup portion of the SDK. Not glamorous but it needed to be done so our Setup developer could build us a Windows Installer package to install the documentation and code samples that make up the SDK. Today I filled out the request form for our legal team to prepare our End User License Agreement (again, a less than thrilling job that's all part of the random stuff Program Managers do) and I realized that I could fill out the entire form, with only one question for Rinki, my job-share partner. Small victories, but they're good reassurance that I'm making progress, and I actually feel like I'm truly useful now.
Working part time is also going well. We have a teamwide policy of no meetings on alternate Fridays, which results in all Fridays being pretty light on meetings. So I don't seem to miss much by not being around on Fridays. I've been somewhat flexible with my schedule so if there's an important meeting on a Thursday, I'll come in for it, unless I'm out of town. This team is also very respectful and accepting of the flex work thing - I've gotten no snide comments about working part time or being less committed to my job. In fact, most people I talk to want to know how they can work part time too, until they realize it also comes with a pay cut. :D
So far, so good. What's going on out there? Or have I managed to drive away all my readers by posting so infrequently?