{"id":8153,"date":"2021-10-17T22:07:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T22:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2021-10-17T22:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T22:07:25","slug":"weeknotes-138-random-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/17\/weeknotes-138-random-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknotes #138 \u2014 Random gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8151\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-4-scaled.jpeg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-4-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-4-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-4-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-4-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-4-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-4-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-4-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-4-700x700.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A pretty regular week, with another couple of days in the office. On Wednesday I had another reminder of the \u2018before times\u2019 when the train turned up at the station and zipped right on past me due to being only two-thirds of the size that it was meant to be. Cue me running down the platform and being stuffed into a sweaty carriage with the other lucky commuters.<\/p>\n<p>The garden is letting me know that autumn is here; we\u2019ve had a few leaves falling down and await the first big windy day to strip them all from the trees.<\/p>\n<p>This was a week in which I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Took part in a Friday afternoon workshop on the big strategy questions facing our team and how we think we can hone our mission statement for the coming years.<\/li>\n<li>Picked up a couple of new short projects, one in our Cybersecurity space and another relating to the physical infrastructure in one of our offices. My team\u2019s workload is maxed out from now until the end of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Reviewed an updated specification for implementing Teams-based telephony in two of our offices. Asked for reviews from the other internal sub-teams that are involved in the work.<\/li>\n<li>Continued follow-up work on mandatory call recording.<\/li>\n<li>Presented the initial proposal for Teams-enabled conference rooms in one of our offices and agreed follow-up actions to revise the plans.<\/li>\n<li>Reviewed a proposal for monitoring and maintaining our conference room equipment as well as the quality of our voice and video experience globally, and agreed follow-up actions with the team.<\/li>\n<li>Had a follow-up meeting on a network routing issue and agreed how we will tackle it.<\/li>\n<li>Took part in a technical discussion on the implementation of authentication technology for our most remote offices, and agreed a simple high-level solution.<\/li>\n<li>Agreed to terminate an old leased line Internet connection in one of our offices.<\/li>\n<li>Took part in our monthly risk review meeting. Completed a blog post about <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/13\/using-a-leankit-board-to-manage-risks\/\" title=\"Andrew Doran: Using a LeanKit board to manage risks\">how we use LeanKit to facilitate our risk management process<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Had a broad discussion with a senior manager about what \u2018digital transformation\u2019 means and the risks of being left behind as the world changes.<\/li>\n<li>Caught up with a week\u2019s worth of Kanban board updates across the entire team.<\/li>\n<li>Attended a talk on the strategy of our Infrastructure and Operations team.<\/li>\n<li>Watched a \u2018town hall\u2019-style demo of a new in-house built software suite that solves business problems we were working on nearly a decade ago. The way in which the old project had gone about things, with a system that had a monolithic architecture, was a textbook example of how <em>not<\/em> to do it. It was amazing to see the current team doing so many things right using a modern agile methods and a much more incremental approach to the design.<\/li>\n<li>Was rightly told off by a colleague for having enquired about their family for the third or fourth time and not remembering what they had told me before. I am terrible at this. I spent a few minutes re-looking for a personal CRM system where I can store this information and look it up again. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contactsplus.com\" title=\"Contacts+\">Contacts+<\/a> looks good, but the data that you store is accessible by their employees. I\u2019ve settled on using <a href=\"https:\/\/flexibits.com\/cardhop\" title=\"CardHop\">CardHop<\/a> for now, which is a little step up from the built-in Contacts app on iOS\/iPadOS.<\/li>\n<li>Had a representative from <a href=\"https:\/\/uk-shop.owllabs.com\" title=\"Owl Labs\">Owl Labs<\/a> come to our office to give us a demo of the <a href=\"https:\/\/uk-shop.owllabs.com\/products\/meeting-owl-pro\" title=\"Meeting Owl Pro\">Meeting Owl Pro<\/a>. The technology is impressive, and offers a significant upgrade for the experience of someone attending a meeting remotely where most of the discussion is happening between participants in a meeting room. It has a camera facing a 360\u00b0 mirror to obtain a panoramic shot, and then zooms in on up to three places in the panorama from where sound is emanating. It\u2019s not perfect \u2014 the video quality is relatively low and the remote participant needs to ensure that Teams shows the incoming video stream in its full width \u2014 but it was impressive all the same. I am hoping we can obtain some devices and see how they can work for us as hybrid meetings become much more common again.<\/li>\n<li>Had a random coffee with a colleague in our Wealth Management team who only joined us six months ago. It\u2019s always interesting to hear about what the experience has been like to move companies when everyone has been out of the office.<\/li>\n<li>Had an online conversation about whether calendars are openly visible or showing \u2018free\/busy\u2019 only at work. There is a lot of merit to having an open culture where everyone can see what everyone else is up to, with private appointments being tagged as private, but if you don\u2019t start from that place it would be a massive shift to flip the bit from closed to open. In these days of online calls I would also be concerned with random people having access to digital artefacts that go along with the meeting, such as whiteboards and chats.<\/li>\n<li>Had a wonderful lunch with an old boss, having not seen him since the start of 2020. He\u2019s from Beijing and has been on assignment here in London for the past six years; talking to him about current events always gives me new perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>Met with a couple of school governor colleagues to refine the draft vision work that we started some months ago. I was glad to find that it was in pretty good shape and only needed a couple of tweaks. Next step is to socialise it further with the team.<\/li>\n<li>Joined the 16\u201317mph group for the Saturday morning club cycle ride as my son was away attempting his Duke of Edinburgh bronze award. I managed to hold my own, particularly up the hills, and only got dropped by some of the riders as we pummelled our way on a long drag back into town. Fun!<\/li>\n<li>Ran the line for my youngest boy\u2019s football match away at St Albans. A fantastic end-to-end match which they won 2-1.<\/li>\n<li>Had a wonderful dinner out at <a href=\"http:\/\/thaicottage.com\" title=\"Thai Cottage, Berkhamsted\">Thai Cottage<\/a> with friends we haven\u2019t seen in a long time.<\/li>\n<li>Caved in and <a href=\"https:\/\/superdeluxeedition.com\/news\/the-bluetones-cd-box-set-and-vinyl-reissues\/\" title=\"Super Deluxe Edition: The Bluetones CD box set and vinyl reissues\">bought<\/a> the Bluetones\u2019 <em>Expecting to Fly<\/em> boxed set and the reissued <em>Return To The Last Chance Saloon<\/em>. I love these albums. They were definitely one of \u2018my\u2019 bands back in the mid-1990s. Having the b-sides from the era of the first album on vinyl is a dream come true \u2014 the songs are superb. The pressings sound amazing and I\u2019m glad to have added them to my collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8150\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-1-1-scaled.jpeg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-1-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-1-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-1-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-1-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-1-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-1-1-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-1-1-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-1-1-700x700.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Made a concerted push in my effort to complete <em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardjevans.com\/publications\/pursuit-power-europe-1815-1914\/\" title=\"Richard J Evans: The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914\">The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914<\/a><\/em>. I\u2019m over 90% done, with nearly 300 highlights made, and I\u2019m now on the final chapter. There is a <em>lot<\/em> to unpack.<\/li>\n<li>Mowed and fed the lawns. I find it very difficult to judge whether I\u2019m I under- or overdoing it with the \u2018feed and weed\u2019, so I\u2019ll guess I\u2019ll find out in a couple of weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Started watching <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10986410\/\" title=\"IMDB: Ted Lasso\">Ted Lasso<\/a><\/em> after hearing so many people talk about it, including one of the FT business podcasts that I regularly get in my feed. We\u2019re six episodes in and I love it.<\/li>\n<li>Received a wonderful gift from <a href=\"https:\/\/sharonodea.co.uk\" title=\"Sharon O\u2019Dea\">Sharon O\u2019Dea<\/a> in the Netherlands, home of <a href=\"https:\/\/tonyschocolonely.com\/uk\/en\" title=\"Tony\u2019s Chocolonely\">Tony\u2019s Chocolonely<\/a>. Such a wonderful random thing to do, via the <a href=\"https:\/\/wb40podcast.com\" title=\"WB-40 podcast\">WB-40 podcast<\/a> Signal group. Thank you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_8152\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8152\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8152\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-2-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Thank you Sharon!\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-2-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-2-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-2-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-2-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-2-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-2-1-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-2-1-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-2-1-700x700.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thank you Sharon!<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Bought a fancy new expensive watch (minus the fancy and expensive) after mine stopped working just after midday on Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8149\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-3-1-scaled.jpeg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-3-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-3-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-3-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-3-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-3-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-3-1-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-3-1-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/DraggedImage-3-1-700x700.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next week:<\/strong> Another couple of days in the office, workshops and coaching, two school governor meetings and an Album Club.<\/div>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" 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