Let’s just say the pace of change at my previous employer… well…
... thanks to the economy, state projects are slow like this and also shrinking like this...
Learning the culture at a small business with 10 employees plus myself is breathtaking by comparison.
After just a couple of weeks ramping up on Visual Studio tools and ALM, Northwest Cadence is cheerfully throwing me into the deep end with my own series of free webcasts on Application Lifecycle Management, targeted at the public sector!
When I say “my own”, I mean they’ve left it to me to select the content, write the curriculum and deliver the presentations monthly. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far:
Application Lifecycle Management in the Public Sector
Introduction to Agile
Testing and Quality Best Practices
Data Management, Security, and Risk Management
All of these are customized versions of content from our general-audience ALM and Coffee Talk serieses. Or rather, they will be. I haven’t exactly written them yet. If you’re in the public sector (federal, state, local, K12, higher ed) and you’d like to see me cover specific topics or questions, now’s your chance to let me know and I’ll try to work them in!
Finally, the first sessions are scheduled for September 30 and October 28. For section abstracts and to register, go here:
nwcadence.com/PublicSectorALMTraining
I’m not sure whether Northwest Cadence had an inkling of these public sector sessions before I started working here, or if they cooked them up during my first week — I’m learning that both are plausible — but that’s not even all. Based on clever ideas or even witticisms I’ve thrown around since I arrived, I’ve got one new Coffee Talk session and a whole ‘nother major initiative in the works, announcements forthcoming.
Like this.
This place gives me a head-spinning degree of responsiveness, acknowledgement, respect, and freedom-to-fail that I’m still trying to get used to. To put it another way, every time I open my mouth about something I think is clever, I earn myself new responsibilities, and that’s so unexpected that I haven’t learned how to filter yet. I’m kinda hoping I never do. :)
