Back to school tomorrow!

At least that's what it feels like.  I've got my new clothes, new pencil case and a new notebook.  I've checked and saved all and any templates that I'll be needing and yet again rifled through my library to decide what, if any, books I'll be needing to take with me.

Tomorrow it will be off to the new office to meet new colleagues, make new friends and influence new people. And the best bit about it is that I've done this for long enough that I know what I have to do tomorrow - find out: Why I've been hired, What's expected of me, Who are my (potential) friends and enemies; suppliers and customers, How I'm going to deliver, When 'it' needs to be delivered and Where 'it' needs to go.

Admitted not in any detail, and not to a great degree of accuracy (that comes next week...) but by the end of the day I've have got a rough handle on what's going on.

And if I haven't got a rough handle? Well that tells me something too.  The contract will be an interesting one...

A New Contract...

Thank goodness! After 5 months on the bench I have a new contract with a new client.  I can't believe the number of false starts and one humongous mistake (which I'll confess to in a later post) it has taken to reach this happy outcome.  

It's also a rather bizarre moment to be starting a blog, but I was never one to do things the straight forward way.  And since I have strong doubts as to whether anyone will read it, now is as good a time as any.

The project is a good one and covering an area of ITSM which is pretty new to me - Knowledge Management.

But before then I have one week to get my house in order - literally.  All of those good intentions to organise, clean and de-clutter never quite turned into actions. 

But now I've got a dead-line...

Happy Days!!