February 14, 2007
Dear Everyone:
It looks like “Jeannie” is really getting serious about starting the remodel on her kitchen. How serious? When I visited her place last Saturday, the only part of the counter that was still standing was the part holding up the sink.
All of the cupboards above and below had been pulled out and placed either in the garage (also known as “the really big closet”) or were on their way to the garage (as in, still inside the house but close to the garage door.) Said garage was also remarkably clutter-free. You could actually walk out into the center without having to step (or climb) over something.
The erstwhile kitchen cupboards were leaning against the garage wall. Later, they will be mounted on the walls for additional storage space. All of this has been done with the help of one of “Jeannie’s” friends who is a plumber, or electrician, I’m not sure which, but is definitely skilled in various aspects of carpentry and other “handy man” occupations.
I have pictures, which will become the “before pictures”, to be followed by the “after pictures”. I just haven’t had time to transfer them from the camera to my computer.
I’m not exactly sure what happens next. I think it may have something to do with ripping up all the linoleum and carpets in preparation for laying down of tiles. The last I heard, “Jeannie” was going to tile the whole downstairs and do some kind of simulated wood upstairs. But that could have changed by now. As they say, “Film at 11:00.”
In other news…
I was on the File Plan (FP) team at work.
That’s the group which is tasked with coming up with a File Plan
for the entire company to use for their electronic records.
I see two basic problems with this whole company-wide filing
system idea. The Standard
XXX Company of
In the case of both companies, you had things to file and no place to file them. (We used to file tours under “meetings” because there was no place to file tours and we figured there had to be at least some people “meeting” for a tour to take place.) In both companies, you had places to file things and nothing to file in them. As in empty folders taking up space in drawers.
I wrote that I was on the File Plan team. There was also another team called the Document Lifecycle (DLC) team. The FP and the DLC got together and decided to merge into the Information Management Fundamentals (IM Fun) team.
The IM Fun team (cute, huh?) has been busily churning out things called Design Concepts (DC) for what the new system is supposed to be able to do. They’re also creating Business Requirements (BR) based on the Design Concepts.
Meanwhile, in another part of the company, there’s the Security and Standards (S&S) team. They’ve been coming up with the standards that govern what and how the system should be designed to meet the Information Risk Management (IRM) requirements to safeguard the company.
A few weeks ago, the IM Fun team formed a “sub-sub standards team”, consisting of two other people and yours truly, to compare the standards and the design concepts and business requirements. So for the past few weeks, I’ve been “nitpicking” the DC’s and BR’s and did I mention the Use Case Scenarios? Them, too.
Mostly it’s semantics like “don’t call it ‘releasing a document’, call it ‘declaring the document a record’.” However, there is a basic disagreement between two heads of teams about using the word “record” at all. Major disagreement. Big battle of wills going on. Thunderstorms approaching…
Stay tuned.
Love, as always,
Pete
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