{"id":577,"date":"2008-06-02T19:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2008-06-03T11:09:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T10:09:16","slug":"paved-with-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Paved with gold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stand in the office in Swindon, projects and work-packages completed.<\/p>\n<p>The next one &#8211; a major SI project &#8211; means that I have to relocate to London.<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;m bedded-in, have the measure of the scope of work and have the management of the project completely within my grasp, I&#8217;m going to try and vary things.<\/p>\n<p>It would be good if I could arrange to spend one day a fortnight working at home &#8211; if for no other reason that just to get my project documentation up together!<\/p>\n<p>Building and maintaining a good project-based document library and ensuring the outputs (be they highlight reports or personal activity reports for an internal customer\/external stakeholder userbase) takes time (believe it or not!).<\/p>\n<p>Just as any organisation with <em>values<\/em> needs to invest time in its staff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Any project with <em>values<\/em> needs to invest time in its internal processes and administration.<\/p>\n<p>Because if the documentation isn&#8217;t up to scratch and the wheels come off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Or if the internal and\/or external stakeholders begin to feel disenfranchised&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when the doo-doo hits the big whirly air-rotating thing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, London accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting to hear from Shane and Pete as to whether or not they&#8217;ve got room at the inn (to use a phrase).<\/p>\n<p>I hope so, it would be a handy &#8211; not to mention short! &#8211; commute from their house in Brixton to the office.<\/p>\n<p>The big change though, is that I will be able to commute down to London at the start of the week &#8211; and return home at the end of the week by train.<\/p>\n<p>Yay!<\/p>\n<p>Much iPodding and reading to be had.<\/p>\n<p>And also Not Yay!<\/p>\n<p>Being away from home all week.<\/p>\n<p>Not good. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stand in the office in Swindon, projects and work-packages completed. The next one &#8211; a major SI project &#8211; means that I have to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}