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Thursday, 26 July 2007 11:14 |
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What a difference a month makes!
It is over a month since my last blog update and I have had a very busy month indeed. Firstly, my managers have decided that I am not going to this year's CMII Conference in Seattle, but instead I am being promised that I will be allowed to attend next year's European CMII conference in Germany. I don't mind accepting this option, as I have spent much time in Germany during my days with the British Army and obviously rejoice at the chance to spend more time in beautiful Germany, but I would have liked to attend the US conference, simply to see a wider view of CMII. Anyhow, let's see how things go until next year's conference in Germany.
Now, besides the CMII conference, I have had the busiest month I have yet experienced since taking up my position as Configuration Management Engineer in the Training Production area of our aerospace company. The main reason for the massive increase in my workload is that my management have suddenly realised that some of our training products are being sent out to customers without any of our proprietary markings. There are many reasons for this, many dating back decades to days when our training was seen to be only for supporting the British Armed forces, whereas now we produce training for the armed forces of many countries spread all over the world. Naturally, management are desperately trying to ensure that all our training products now bear our company proprietary markings, ensuring that anyone who chooses to extract technical data from any of our training products must realise that he is committing an offence and there may be dire consequences attached to his/her breach of copyright. As a result of this issue, my management now insist that all products that contain any technical data, including e-mails, must come through our Configuration Management team, which currently consists of just me on my own, but there is the strong possibility that I will soon have an assistant to help me deal with my increased workload. A measure of the increase in my workload is that I have processed more items coming in and going out of my office in the last 2 weeks than I had previously had to handle in the preceeding 6 months. A pretty impressive increase in workload, but luckily the procedures I had previously established allowed me to handle the increase in work quite easily. In fact the extra workload actually allowed me to polish up my act and although I got the credit for dealing with the increase, I actually managed to deal with it quite easily, in other words besides one or two days when I had to work slightly longer hours than are normal, everything went pretty smoothly. I have produced metrics on my increased work load, which appears to have prompted the initiative for me to be given an assistant, but in the meantime I will appear to my managers to be bearing up well under my enormously increased workload.
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