I thought I would start the morning writing an entry here as I work to get back into the habit of writing on a daily basis. My work meeting schedule is pretty light today so I'm hoping for a productive day, all in all.
I had a good Sunday - breakfast at Denny's and then stopped to visit with Bob and Kai for a while. They were both doing well. After that I circled home and spent a fairly lazy afternoon doing next to nothing.
Monday was typical work chaos. I didn't really accomplish anything, but I did manage to go to a couple of meetings, listen in on a couple of teleconference and keep the email flood down to a small rush. Monday evening I spent watching the latest episode of "Fear the Walking Dead" and reading articles on Flipboard, then a call with TR, and finally curling up in bed to read "Central Station", a new SciFi novel I've been working my way through.
I got a good night sleep and woke up this morning with a head stuffed from allergies. I am going to try and hammer my way through the email backlog (which is sitting at about 40 or so) and work some on the conversion reports I'm overdue on. The main thing I want to say at the end of the day is that I was able to get my arms firmly around the projects I've got rolling.
We've got a pretty powerful weakness in our approach to work. Basically, at a very high level, a project has certain key steps. Discovery, Requirements, Coding, Systems Test, User Test, Deployment.
Our main customer can not seem to get the requirements portion down and so more often than not we go into coding with our customers still working on figuring out exactly what it is they want to do. Previously our upper management did a bad job of getting requirements locked down. We're still struggling in that area - because of the internal politics of corporations, we just can't get to requirements lock. The new management is doing a better job, but there is still a lot of way to go there.
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