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Marion's Weblog
My name is Marion Vermazen. I worked at Sun Microsystems up until June 3, 2005. I worked on the IT aspects of Sun's work from anywhere program, iWork. I was also the team lead for the Java Desktop and Solaris 10 at Sun Change Acceptance team.

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Friday October 15, 2004

JDS - Change Acceptance Review

We had our third Change Acceptance Review (CAR) meeting for JDS @ Sun this afternoon. There are several things that are cool about these meetings.

The first cool thing is that these meeting are not the kind of review / tollgate that you dread like you dread an exam you have to pass. One of the key tenets of the Sun Change Acceptance Process is Focused Leadership. So the CAR meeting allows us to bring the two VP's who are our sponsors up to date but more important it allows us to ask them for help and guidance with a couple of the issues we are facing. The CAR allows the focused leadership to remind the team of their support and it allows us to use them to help get things done. (Thanks Eric and Linda!!)

The second cool thing is that the CAR allows us to get out of the trenches for a bit and focus on the big picture. Even though we still have an enormous amount of work in front of us we actually have made a lot of progress. Putting together the presentation made me feel really good about what we have accomplished.

The third cool thing is that it reminds me what a great team I have and how much a focused team can accomplish. Thanks Team!

So you ask..... What have we accomplished?? Here are a few of the things we've done.
The internal JDS web site is up and running.
We are answering questions coming to the feedback alias off the web site.
We have held question and answer sessions with the SAs. (We need to do some more.)
We have created a presentation that we use with stakeholder groups. It is called JDS@ Sun, Seeking Input.
New employee training is being updated.
We are executing on a comprehensive communication plan that includes among other things the JDS Phantom :-)
We are calling all the VPs to enlist their support.
We are creating and updating a FAQ list.
We are engaging in a multitude of ways with 6 key stake holder groups.
etc., etc., etc.

That's the latest chapter in the continuing story of our drive to have everyone at Sun running JDS everywhere. It represents Sun's Future! Stay tuned :-)

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