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Monday, 16 April 2007 05:44 |
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When I started as Config Management Engineer I didn't think I would have enough work to fill the day!
Isn't it amazing how things turn out! I became a CMII grad about 18 months ago, and moved into my current job as Configuration Management Engineer in our Training Production Group about 1 year ago and at the time I was concerned that I didn't have enough work to fill my working day. Initially I sat at my desk, answering e-mails and thinking out our CM policy, but every day I had a few hours when I really didn't have anything to do. In fact, that is why I had the time to start this blog. However, it wasn't long before my line management started to task me with various CM projects and now I am very pushed to keep on top of the amount of work coming my way. Once people realise that there is someone in the organisation with the role of Configuration Management Engineer fingers start being pointed in your direction for all sorts of projects, and most of the time I find that I cannot put my hand on my heart and say that the latest CM project should not be a CM function. My latest role is a case in question. I have been asked to take on responsibility for the archiving of data. I already had responsibility for our Fire Safe, in which we store CDs and DVDs which hold our reference material and the deliverables that we have sent out to our customers, so now I have the responsibility of archiving all the other reference materials, correspondence, etc, that have been filling up our filing cabinets for a long time. Our company has a Long Term Archive that I can use to archive several gigs of data each day, but obviously we need the ability to retrieve archived material in the unlikely event that someone ever needs to refer back to something that has been archived. Therefore, it falls on my shoulders to maintain the Archive database, that can be used to retrieve data from either the Long Term Archive, or our Fire Safe. I also make the call whether in fact we need to archive data, as staff tend to want to keep every bit of data, in particular every reference photograph they have ever taken, even though the reference object has been modified several times since the photographs were taken, making them useless as reference objects. In this manner I am managing to save our company several gigs of memory each day, freeing up a lot of memory in our company servers for reuse. My next project, which is waiting until I have time to fit it in, is to rework our company policy on Naming Conventions and using company templates for documents, presentations, etc. Naturally, as part of the rework of our company policy on these issues I will build in CM measures such as a central authority for the creation and modification of documents, presentations, etc, with all data being recorded in my CM databases for future reference and retrieval.
Now the days aren't long enough and I am very pushed to fit the work coming my way into my working day! Funny how things work out, isn't it?
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