210316

What went well?

Adapting to the latest range of scope changes.

Had a good chat with a team member about the changes and appreciating their approach to work.

What didn’t go so well?

Didn’t get any revision done.

What could I do differently in the future?

Get some revision done.

210315

What went well?

Refining the scope of work to better fidelity.

Work with the team of understand how we’ll approach delivering on that scope.

What didn’t go so well?

Worked all evening and didn’t get any revision done.

Didn’t get the answers I need to make a decision about where to focus our efforts.

What could I do differently in the future?

Do it myself?

210314

What went well?

Went for a nice walk and talked about all kinds of things from the role charities play in society to what problem the education system is trying to solve.

Wrote my fourth ‘Things I’ve Read Recently” Twitter thread.

What didn’t go so well?

Didn’t get any revision done.

What could I do differently in the future?

Nothing. Just not enough hours in the day.

210313

What went well?

Wrote my weeknotes.

Went for a walk and spent some time thinking about non-militaristic metaphors for team work, mostly around jazz and improvisation. Also learned about Brian Eno’s oblique strategies and see where the history of that kind of random playing card comes from.

What didn’t go so well?

Was awake until 3 am thinking about work.

Still can’t get into groove of writing my talk.

What could I do differently in the future?

Maybe I should try a different approach to writing my talk. Perhaps on paper or Miro board to get to a better outline.

210312

What went well?

Refocused a project at work.

Went for a short walk and listened to a few podcasts.

Listened to this weeks lecture and got info about the upcoming exam.

What didn’t go so well?

Spent my day off working.

What could I do differently in the future?

Try to take next Friday off.

210311

What went well?

Process mapping and support modeling for a small project that will be a good learning opportunity.

Quickly redefined MVP.

Worked on my Service Design course assignment to research remote learning and agile education.

Thinking about ‘Solo creator for good’ projects.

What didn’t go so well?

Got some meetings booked for my day off tomorrow.

What could I do differently in the future?

Only accept meetings that are important.

210310

What went well?

Had some good inputs in a programme level delivery planning session and picked up so insight into the future layout.

Wrote up some of my ideas about roadmaps and delivery plans.

What didn’t go so well?

Didn’t express my concerns about a proposed change very positively.

What could I do differently in the future?

Try harder to listen, and be clearer about exploring options versus focusing on a solution.

210309

What went well?

Getting better at being disciplined around organising my work.

Really good discovery call with a team working on a programme.

Did a little bit of work on my talk.

Learned a bit about Zettelkasten and note-taking.

What didn’t go so well?

Trying to answer big, broad, out-of-context questions.

Torn between a solution I think will work better and a more established, accepted solution.

What could I do differently in the future?

Aim for adaptability by preparing for more options.

210308

What went well?

Got some work done.

Did some more updates to my website.

What didn’t go so well?

Didn’t work of my talk.

What could I do differently in the future?

JFID.

210307

What went well?

Wrote the third ‘recently read’ Twitter thread.

Started playing with P2, the WordPress information site.

Went for a walk.

What didn’t go so well?

Didn’t work of my talk.

What could I do differently in the future?

More focus, or accept that less progress at weekends is ok.