Fluff from the naval of my mind

Back on the work treadmill that is.

Starting a new contract is always interesting. After all you get to learn about a new way of working (no two organisations are alike) and see other peoples efforts to solve problems that almost all organisations face at one time or another. The length of time required for this initial learning period varies wildly depending upon how open the client is, how well documented their practices are recorded, how easy it is for me to access their systems, and how much freedom I am given to work the way I prefer (after twenty years I have developed my own may of doing things that is, for me, most productive — so the more the client can live with my approach the more productive I can be).

For obvious reasons I am reticent to discuss individual clients in blogs. Certainly not when I am working for them, and when I leave them I only discuss their circumstances without attribution. For now I will simply note that this client is, so far, very open and cooperative. This bodes well for our future relationship because the more I can get along with the client, the more I think they are actually listening and responding to what I am saying, the more productive I can be for them.

Well, this is day two of this contract so I shall keep this post short as I have much to mull over.