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New year, new starts

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Why does a new year herald the dawn of new directions, new plans, new resolutions. At a very basic level not a lot has changed physically, the Earth is still moving round the Sun, there are still 24 hours in a day (give or take leap seconds). So the sun in is still rising and setting, but we have this need to start afresh as it is a new year.

To me it is a time to look back on the last year and reflect, and work out what went well, what could have been better and what went really badly, a retrospective as I would call it at work – or the Good, the Bad and the Ugly – as I write them up (I should really see the film)

One thing that I have realised is that I was hit by the curse of busyness, and in conjunction with my natural procrastination, some of the big plans and not so big plans did not happen.

So I am viewing this year as a start to living a more simple life, trying not to fill my time with watching too much TV, to having space for the worthwhile things in life, such as spending time with friends and family, getting out in the garden – stretching myself by reading. Saying no to doing things that I would like to do, but I know that there is someone better at it than me.

Update

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Over the past few months, since the beginning of September to be exact I have been an Agile team of one and a bit (myself and an apps guy when around). I have come to realise that I value working in a team, it seems just a lot easier to work with other people, I miss the opportunities to:

  • Bounce ideas around
  • Having my tests and code reviewed

But in the past months have been exposed to new experiences namely interviewing and the processes that are around interviewing, it has been an eye opener to the other side. But, I have now got a new team member joining soon and looking forward to having someone to work with and expose to SCRUM, but this does mean that I am going to moving to a new desk with a white board :-)

One thing that I have learnt in bringing new team members is that documentation or diagrams are great for communicating ideas across, but it is important to schedule time, time is something that I don’t usually have whilst at work, but I am lucky enough to have a week to prepare……..