Rambling Ken

Week 3

Finishing up my 3rd week. Quite the dip in the deep end, but it's still quite exciting. Focusing on how to take what we've got in Software, make sense of it, find out who's doing what, and what areas people really needed help in solving.

My particular challenge is how to create turnkey software stacks, with a sub-challenge being to help define what pieces are needed for those stacks, and what pieces are available internally, and which of those are being made available externally, and how.

My other goals is to start "working from the end state", what problems are being solved, and why, to determine the appropriate toolbox needed to solve those particular problems. As an engineer, it's all to easy to look in today's toolbox, and figure out exactly how to solve any problem with the tools at hand. That's great when you're delivering to other people just like you, but if you're delivering (directly or indirectly) to someone who isn't like you, you've gotta figure out how to step back.

More on all that in the coming weeks as I nail down the how, now that I'm getting a handle on the what.

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Posted at 05:41PM Mar 15, 2007 by kenwallich in Personal  |  Comments[0]