Holiday till 7 May

My blog discipline is just growing and now I'm going on holiday.
Today I work till 14:00 hr. and will fetch the caravan from the stable. Tomorrow morning we leave for Reims or... somewhere in Germany.
Women...
Lots of positive reactions on my idea to replace Windows desktops with LINUX desktops.
The project board of my project must have a meeting for an official start. In the meantime I already started.
Today I will continue doing so and have one important meeting to speed-up my project assistant.

Meeting with principle director ICT

This morning I was invited for a breakfast meeting with the Principle Director of ICT to talk about my ideas of LINUX on desktops (6000) within the office.
I had the opportunity to express my ideas. It was well received. The PD's reaction was nevertheless withholding. The company's users do not like change. And moving to Linux on the desktops (workstations) would mean a drastic change. The 3 Million annual saving is peanuts in comparison to the risks of failure at the migration time.
Open Office however is to be investigated as an alternative for Microsoft's Office products.
Today marks as start for the tool selection project which I will lead.
I hope the project members to be able to work during my holiday.

Reims ....prepare for invasion of the Dutch!

Wednesday

Today a bit of doing everything....what's new?
Definitely finalise the PID's (some changes to be made due to remarks of the programme mananger). And then start the projects.
Video instruction was perfect. Only positive responses!

second day of the week

Just a few days before I leave on holiday.....
Yesterday I finished the Open Source outline for the company (6000 PC migrating to Linux)It will be discussed in the IM board.
The information exchange for updates in the Change Management tool (video mail) are finished too.
And, it was a busy day, Yesterda, I created and sent out the guide line for the next period in the Change Management Procedure, to come to a high Level Release Plan.
Before creation of this blog I already encountered opposition, by one of the team leaders. It seems that I need to organise an (extra) information session......

It was a fantastic weekend!

It was a fantastic weekend, nice warm, I was able to schoot some video and visited my parents. This week will be the week of initiation of projects. I finished one of the two PID's.
Today is finishing the second one, initation of one project and write a memo on Open Source desktops with StarOffice or OpenOffice.
I start quickly, lots to do.

Friday, still a lot to do

New issues poped up for creation of the High Level Release Plan. Total focus on that. It has high priority because of the time pressure what the product managers will encounter. They need to produce the HLRP per product before 18 May! I will discuss my latest proposal with the director this afternoon.
If time left this morning the video presentation need to be finished (last changes in CTS forces me to redo the video capture session). Other wise this will be Monday. Also the PID's need to be discussed with the director for approval (nearly finished)
Hope to end early for a beer (or two).

Thursday already

Not finished the 2 PID's due to the fact that I could not discuss it with management. I will try today. However Yesterday managed to create an instruction movie which can be used as webcast for about 100 people within this organisation.
From my point of view this is more efficient way of informing that many people. Initial idea was to organise 2 big meetings of 1 hour....
See what the reaction is .....this is new here.

So finishing the PID's today and broadcast the instruction movie.
have a nice day!

Plans for today

My plans are to finalise the PID's for 2 projects which we are running in the comming weeks.

For the first project, a product selection I will plan some interviews for the coming days to start with.

Next to that I will handle budget requests for 2008 which are out for sync with the reality (more money required). The developments planned for 2008 are much more then expected earlier because of the extra demanded requirements by the countries wich ought to go life soon.

Privately I will go for badminton again this evening... I think.

Today / Vandaag

Today on April 17th this blog is created.
I do not know if I create my blog in Eglish or Dutch.
We zien wel...