New Day

What's going on? Job automation is my current focus. A lot of my work is related to data gathering. I wish I could automate a lot of the "heavy lifting." The problem seems to be being able to identify the specific linkages between tasks and creating these linkages. At least I'm brave enough to give it a try: there are a lot of quick fixes and compromises that I'm forced into. But, I'm going to focus on identifying programmatic solutions and finding ways to automate my reporting. I recognize that I need to apply the discipline that I have read about and learned on my own.

I need to to back to Steve McConnell's Construx site and get myself on a discipined path. I can do it!

Dublin - Day 15

Well, I haven't had a chance to enter much on my 'blog (not as if anyone is reading this). However, I thought it would be good just to write down my thoughts about the presentation I had this afternoon. It didn't go as well as I would have liked. I should have done three things:
1. Define my research questions first. (I was never presented with a format for proposing a project so I made the mistake of define my objectives first. Perhaps one of my objectives could have been to define my research questions. Realistically, this was my first time defining a research project -- I need look for some instructions on defining a research framework).
2. Situated myself to intervene self-reflexively. What does this really mean? That's tough -- it means to understand my role as a researcher.
3. Champion a cause -- this is "action ethnography" -- the terms and intentions feel ambiguous to me, but I'm learning from my mistakes. Oh well, that's all for now. I just wanted to get some of my thoughts down in writing.