January 23, 2008
Dear Everyone:
Be careful what you wish for.
The past few weeks I haven’t had much to do at
work, due to the Information Management (IM) Solution part of the big
GIL3 Project getting sent back to the drawing board.
It was nice to have the time to finish my Performance Management
Plan (PMP) documentation for the year.
It’s just unfortunate that all the work was done for an
Enterprise File Plan (EFP) which many now consider to be a failure that
will never be used. Oh,
well.
At least I do get to crow about passing the exam
and becoming a genuine Certified Records Manager (CRM) even if all it
gets me is a handshake, congratulations and (maybe) lunch.
In the meantime, the IM Solution team has been
scrambling to pick up the pieces and get going forward again.
They did come out with a “Vision/Scope Document”, all 57 pages of
it.
I’m not naming the software company, but does
anyone remember Windows 95, which did not get released in 1995 as was
planned? The software
company, who shall remain nameless, has a new philosophy:
Ship first and fix later.
Why get all the bugs out while the product is still in
Beta?
Just ship it on the date announced and let the customers debug it
for you.
I’m not really sure how OUR customers will like
this, but I guess we’ll see.
In the meantime, over in the
So when the supervisor of the Active Records for
the “Winks” Group went to my supervisor and manager, asking if they had
anyone with adequate records and information management experience and
some free time to help him out, guess whose name came up?
Since last week, I’ve been working over in Building
T, in the Lower Level (don’t call it the basement!) going through
Trademark files. Boy does
this company have a lot of trademarks!
Apparently they already had an army of contractors go through the
files, indexing them into a huge
Excel
spreadsheet.
That was phase one of the Trademarks Application and Registration
Clean-up Project. Phase two
is my going over them again, filling in missed information and
double-checking the accuracy of the work.
And, when I find a folder that appears to have been skipped, even
if it has the big blue dot that says it was processed, then I get to
index the whole thing.
I’m trying to remember when was the last time that
I did any indexing.
Certainly not after I joined the Corporate Records Management group in
1987, so over 20 years ago.
Long before that I wasn’t indexing, I was designing the
databases for
other people to indexed in to.
Let’s just say it’s been about a quarter of a century.
Nice to know I’ve still got what it takes.
Love, as always,
Pete
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