The importance of data driven decisions throughout the enterprise cannot be underestimated. Understanding the data flowing through an organisation is key to providing customers with products that they will love. This has long been known and understood. In which case, why does providing access to the data stored within our business applications seem so often to be an afterthought?
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I was fortunate to have been recently invited to a talk by Bruce Daisley, Head of Twitter Europe, hosted by York University Alumni Association at Wayra, Telefónica’s incubator.
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Paul Boag recently asked are your internal systems damaging your business? Having spent almost two years thinking about how we can help staff at reed.co.uk work better, I’m pleased that our team’s core principles are reflected in the press.
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I should probably start with some self-congratulation, given that I’m now a Certified Scrum Product Owner, having spent two days with the excellent Roman Pichler. I’m looking forward to seeing my name on the Scrum Alliance website!
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I arrived Monday lunchtime. Having met the famous Yvette, who is much more helpful in real life than via email (which Isabella — my voisine — believes is because they distrust it, it’s not the minitel you know), and been introduced to the sanitaryware in my bathroom, I was left to my own devices. Now ordinarily you potter about deciding where to put your collection of oddly-shaped cornflakes and sorting your books into height order, but I was in luck! Amy came and whisked me into Strasbourg with her mum and we had tarte flambée, which is creamy onion-y goodness and a diabolo (a concoction of lemonade and grenadine — délicieux).
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This is a blatant lie. My suitcase is not small, the problem is probably the amount of rubbish I’m trying to pack into it. In fact I don’t believe I can get one an awful lot larger than I have… I’m leaving on Sunday and my general unpreparedness is worrying. I do have somewhere to live and, as Ford Prefect urges, I have a towel. Two actually, bath sheets the pair of them. Taking a leap into the unknown is a worrying thing to do, but I do feel sometimes like a mountain is being made out of a mole-hill, albeit a reasonably sized mole-hill.
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So I found out where I’ll be teaching next year. I’ve been posted to a place an hour north of Strasbourg, without a train service. I’ve thought about getting a car, but that doesn’t solve getting from the Eurostar/Airport to wherever it may be that I end up living. It’s certainly an interesting predicament, but saying that I still haven’t introduced myself to the school yet, which is something I should probably do sooner rather than later. I’m told no-one will be reading it until la rentrée in September, but it’s probably better to organise things sooner rather than later in the vain hope that someone will reply. I’m quite excited about the whole thing really, but strangely not as worried and anxious as I might expect. I’m sure they will come in time.