I’m the WHAT?
Gulp! I’m the Project Manager on that?
Er, uh, okay…. So, it turns out that almost everyone but me was thinking I was the project manager on the remote site standardization project. Which is something else again. Somehow, I got the idea that it was the remote site imaging project. Nope! Nothing like finding out you’re in charge of a big project that’s even bigger than you realized.
So, I guess I’ll be learning MS Project. And, reading a book or two on project management. Not to mention trying to sort out all the issues that have nothing to do with imaging, on which I have been oh, so focused these past six months or so. At least I finished that this morning. Well, except for not having base images done on machines we don’t have yet. That’s not too bad, though, since it would take a miracle to have images of machines that I don’t have in my physical possession. Can’t fault me for that, right? RIGHT?
Well, anyway, it’s business as unusual in my freaky-deaky career. I never know what’s coming around the corner next. I just try to hold on tight and enjoy the ride!
Baseline Magazine is an excellent project management resource as far as getting your feet wet. If you haven’t been there already:
http://www.baselinemag.com
Check out the case studies. They profile a different company project in each issue. They have so far focused on projects completed by Nordstrom, Nike, Netflix to name just a few and in the current issue they profile RJ Reynolds. Which is a pretty mind boggling article. At least to me, my mind boggles easily. Download them in .pdf form, because they include really useful graphics. Sign up for a free subscription, it’s really a great magazine.
Don’t sweat learning MSProject, it’s really intuitive and comes with a bunch of prefab templates you can use as a guide. In addition, you can sign up as a Microsoft Registered Partner for free (of course) and then you have access to a whole boatload of other project templates.
That website is:
https://partner.microsoft.com/
Comment by MightyKong — 3/7/2005 @ 9:50 pm
Hey,
I remembered you were doing something like this:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/1977.html
yes yes nothing to do with the project thing, just loook at it.
Comment by Ed — 3/8/2005 @ 5:21 pm
Yeah, actually, I had that going for a bit. Got to be problematic with a couple of the newer Dell models, though, and CD-Rs are sooo cheap… Anyway, it’s pretty cool. I couldn’t live without my USB key anymore!
Comment by Network Geek — 3/8/2005 @ 10:37 pm