Ok, now I'm really tired. Last night I got together with my manager Mark and lots of folks from the New York "Plan" and "Operate" teams. Good to meet a bunch of them and at least have a bit of name-face recognition. I also ate, for some unknown reason, some bread that had nuts in it at dinner. The discomfort came on pretty strong, but when I took a hit of primatene inhaler I carry, it all levelled off pretty quickly. I guess the adrenaline was just the thing to dampen the reaction. Now my digestion is still feeling a little complicated.
[Later] I'm on the train to Mount Kisco to visit Jeanie. It will be odd to again be a tourist in a place that I'm very familiar with. We had a video conference this morning about development process from London. I'm starting to envision the daily process I'll have in Houston. We'll be trying to move to what is called an "agile" process, which which manages the more troublesome aspects of software development in a much better way that is typical. It doesn't solve everything, but it does improve the way people on different teams with different skill sets share both information and best practices over the life of the project. It will be challenge to engage people on the business side of things so that they have a vested interest in using this process to enhance the way development solves their business problems and enhances the business process.
I'll have to wrap up the evening relatively early tonight, so I can catch my flight out to Houston at 10:30am tomorrow. Im checking out aroung 7:30am, then Sethu and I will go catch breakfast on the way. I'm starting to gear up for setting up my first trip back to MA. Now that I know where I'll be living, I can settle in a bit more and start administratin things again. i have such a pile of just to take care of for the apartment, like a bed, desk, chair, linens and blankets, etc., etc.
Posted by David Cymbala at May 7, 2004 10:00 PM