As you may have noticed, I’ve had to take a bit of a break from blogging. I’ve kicked out at least a post or two a week for a few years now, but I’m not dry on ideas, and I definitely want to follow up on my recent Test This post (before a follow up becomes irrelevant).
The challenge is that my day job is kicking my ass. I expected the UCIF test and certification work I’m involved with would take about 20% of my time (actually – they told me to expect 20% – I was hoping to get away with a bit less), but lately it’s been making a much bigger dent in my work day. Currently, I’m preparing a progress report for the board, and a members only webinar for later this month, along with trying to gain some ground on the roadmap for the working group.
The Lync team is bearing down on an internal milestone and there are a lot of loose ends (both technical and pseudo-political) to tie up in the next several weeks. Yearly performance calibrations are going on at the same time, so along with my normal levels of coaching and mentoring, I’ve had a few extra sessions of tester therapy in the past weeks.
And then there’s the not-really-work stuff that I still need to do. Top of the list is finishing my PNSQC paper, and I’m also juggling and negotiating some potential speaking engagements for the fall. For the first time ever, I’ve also had to start saying no to some internal speaking requests (sorry – if you read my blog, I hope you ask me again later this summer).
So – once I find a light at the end of the tunnel (or when the day job finally breaks me), I’ll be back.