Let’s see how long I can keep this up for!
This week’s worky highlights:
- We are recruting for two big roles at Luton
- Also at Luton, we have identified 5 big areas of work that we need some more investment in to make them happen, so have been planning the development of business cases to support those.
- We are making good progress towards the first release of content in the LGR DDaT playbook. Izy is leaving us to go on maternity leave and is a huge loss, but we heard about how her role will be covered in future and that was very reassuring!
- Chatting with Nick Hill about LGRCamp – an event he is planning to bring everyone together to talk about the digital bits of LGR, which will be a great day and one I am looking forward to!
- Made some serious progress with Skillstats – I now have my first properly paying customer to join the two others that are sort of paying (but as part of wider consultancy pieces of work).
- I also have got to the point where the cyber, digital, data, and technology specialist skills assessment is more or less complete. This will, I think, be really helpful for areas going through local government reorganisation in particular – but also any organisation wanting to baseline the specialist CDDaT skillset within their teams
- Had a natter with Red Hat’s Johnny Williams, who was lots of fun as well as being super knowledgeable. A great contact to have made.
Not really work stuff:
- Made some substantial changes to this blog to make it easier to use and hopefully maintain
- Recategorised all 3,000+ posts on here in a way that it turns out I don’t like, but at least I now know how to do it!
Media consumption:
- Tracy and I have started Stranger Things from scratch so we can remember it all before tackling the new series.
- We watched Top Gun with the kids, as well as the two Robert Downey Jr Sherlock Holmes films, which were a bit meh. Catch Me If You Can with Tom Hanks and Leonardo di Caprio was more fun.
- Am working my way through The Revolutionists by Jason Burke in the 5 minutes between getting in bed and falling asleep. It’s very good and am frustrated that my limited reading time is making it feel a bit like a slog – which it isn’t!