The main theme of this week has been project management, and more specifically, the profound ignorance that some people have on this matter.
On Tuesday I went to the Circuit Riders conference. For those that don't know what that is, "circuit riders" are the IT equivalent of circuit judges, people that sort out the computers of organizations that are too small, or too poor, to have their own in-house IT. Many of the workshops were on generalities rather than specific techie stuff, project management things like risk management and how you manage volunteers. Interesting, though.
On Tuesday evening was the Energy Group meeting, where the main theme was the small project management disaster brought on by hiring a venue for the Energy Fair before any decent amount of planning was done. Side to side, there was the other management disaster brought on by a guy on the Energy Group, Steam Roller, who was determined to muscle his way in an enquiry of the Council using the space that Charming Guy had got for the Livelihoods Group, and finally achieved it.
On Saturday I went to a project management workshop for Transition, where we learned the specifics of how we were supposed to organise the Energy Fair and why it was such a serious mistake to hire the venue so early. Technically, the project is at initiation stage (that comes before even planning), and things like hiring the venue happen at the implementation (that is after you've planned).
On a personal level, I accompanied my ex to court on Monday and Friday, where he was sentenced for (a) finishing with the whole harassment business and (b) the extreme stupidity of shoplifting a programming manual in the week after he got out of prison. He stays out of prison, but will have to go to probation for about the next eternity and do community work as well. And he's so glad to be out of prison that his only worry is that he's afraid of being too unreliable to keep going to probation as he's supposed to. There's another unmanageable project.
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