Published in Web of Weeknotes·1 day agoWeeknotes S15 Ep4Generalist musings — So I went into this week with some trepidation, hangover from last week’s feeling of being a little lost and desperate and wondering how I could communicate that in a meeting I had coming up on Tuesday. Generally I’m feeling like for various reasons (bidding in October and November, resourcing…Weeknotes5 min readWeeknotes5 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Jan 30Weeknotes S15 Ep 3Downnotes. — Well Friday came and went, and the weekend came and went and so these weeknotes are very late. Last week was hard, and ended with a retro which for various reasons was also quite hard. It made me reflect on some things that I have found particularly difficult over the…Weeknotes4 min readWeeknotes4 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Jan 22Weeknotes Ep15 S2Word of the year / Work / GovCamp — Word of the year I’ve been thinking a lot about creating a word for the year, but nothing has particularly stuck, but I was reading Cate’s weeknote this morning and it inspired me to have another think, and I think I’ve finally settled on ‘outside’. One a basic level that comes from a need…Weeknotes7 min readWeeknotes7 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Jan 15Weeknotes S15 Ep1To 13th January ’23 — Happy New Year! — Last year I maintained a three weekly weeknote cadence across the whole year. …Weeknotes5 min readWeeknotes5 min read
Jan 8Are we in the business of opening doors (and keeping them open)?And is that a problem? — I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about the nature of work and some team dynamics. I’m going to try and outline that thinking here in the hopes that it might be useful for others, and also that it helps me to work through how we might address it. Working in complex systems …Ways Of Working7 min readWays Of Working7 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Dec 11, 2022Threeknotes S14 Ep15 (20th November to 9th December ‘22)Last weeknote of the year — I’ve now managed to keep up a cadence of writing every 3 weeks for the whole of the year. Reflecting, it feels as though I’ve written less, I definitely feel less inclination to write things out as my mind kind of settles between weeks. I guess what I mean is…Weeknotes6 min readWeeknotes6 min read
Nov 20, 2022Scrapbook your way to better project commsPractical thoughts about collection, curation and communication. — I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we tell the stories of our projects. Well ok perhaps it’s not ‘lately’ it seems to be an ongoing thread, but its something that I’ve noticed a lot of us don’t think enough about. Scrapbooking for agile comms In projects, especially complex projects with tight deadlines…Scrapbook5 min readScrapbook5 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Nov 19, 2022Threeknotes S14 Ep14 (31st October to 18th November ‘22)I am bemused, baffled and other b words that it is now November. Not only November but also significantly into November. Its been an interesting experiment to weeknote every 3 instead of 1 week, the passing of time feels like its much faster somehow because of the distance between posts. …Weeknotes5 min readWeeknotes5 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Oct 31, 2022Threeknotes S14 Ep13 ( 10th to 28th October ‘22)So by now we are well into October, in fact it’s Halloween as I write this, so it’s basically November now. The past few weeks have been a little difficult, my brain has been particularly dick-ish, there have been days when I’ve felt really low, and I’ve had some confidence…Weeknotes5 min readWeeknotes5 min read
Published in Web of Weeknotes·Oct 7, 2022Threeknotes S14 Ep12 (19th September to 7th October ‘22)Weird weeks — I always start these threeknotes by looking back over my diary to remember what was happening at the beginning of the period, and on looking back it seems this period started on the 19th September, an unexpected bank holiday. I’d forgotten it was a bank holiday because I’d also come…Weeknotes5 min readWeeknotes5 min read
