Fr Nov 10, 2006
Dropped off Christopher's Ford Explorer for ABS issue with rear back wheel.
Attended IBM's demo of their SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) offering. Better than Microsoft's earlier this week.
Reserved SAP class, SCM230 SNP, for Bruce Gavett.
Mo Nov 13, 2006
Met with Rick and Wendy to discuss interfaces (SOX) and the need to define a small number of procedures for handling errors. We use the Error Cockpit and SM35 specifically but need to determine if there are others. Diana will update the error portion of the SOX documentation and added the error handling procedure name to a column on the list of SAP interfaces she maintains. Lynne's team will write specific procedures - specifically for AR/AP as she feels the Journal error handling procedure is in good shape.
Awarded Diana a Round-of-Applause level WOW award ($100) for her work on SOX documentation.
Sent link for online Planview training to COE management.
Th Nov 16, 2006
In Fast Forward class this past Wed noon thru Friday. On vacation next week.
Mo Dec 4, 2006
Completed two monthly meetings with the Super Users last week where I reviewed the Oct 06 survey and 2007 plans.
Christopher having issues with roommates. Cable has been turned off due to non-payment.
We Dec 13, 2006
Sent out performance ratings recommendations for the Voyager technical team to COE management. Created Fast Forward meeting charter for Super User Network monthly meeting. For CR 2895 regarding Planview templates, spoke with Agustin and presented summary of recommended options to Bret - waiting on reply.
Christopher was late to an exam (Bible, his Professor had suddenly changed the exam from 9:30a to 8:00a). Carol and I prayed about this and when Christopher arrived in Charlotte (having been at home over the weekend), the professor gave him all the time he needed to complete! Great answer to prayer and praise to God. Christopher called this morning to say he had scored an unbelievable "B" in pre-Calculus - not his favorite subject! We both were very excited about this great accomplishment.
Amanda had a great swim meet last night - 5 events. She probably swam the best of this season. No more events until January.
Stephanie invited Ryan for supper the other night and it was good having him over. He is currently studying HVAC at Forsyth Tech and also working a Subway. Carol is encouraging her to bring him over more often so that we can get to know him better.
Carol and I purchased a new ESV Bible for her last weekend. CBC is transitioning to the version and plans to purchase pew Bibles in this translation for use beginning 2007. We noticed last Sunday that pastor had also purchased a new ESV Bible for himself and began using it from the pulpit.
This will be a busy weekend. We have a Christmas party at Don Lamonds house on Friday night; our Bible Fellowship class is having its Christmas Party on Saturday at the Magnolia Room at Wake Forest; and Beverly Amack, the swim coach, is having a Christmas gathering at her house this weekend also I think.
Th Dec 28, 2006
Saw the rings of Saturn through Stephanie's telescope for the first time tonight! Viewed the moon's craters last night.
The family enjoyed probably one of the best Christmas holidays ever. Both Ryan and Heather were able to spend some of the Christmas holidays with us. Also, George and Phyllis, though George was very weak, was able to come over Christmas Day afternoon to eat dinner with us.
Mo Jan 8, 2007
Jenny died today (see blog).
We Jan 17, 2007
I met this morning with Mitch Jones, Nick Gilley, and Agustin Fiorito to discuss Project Advance and its designated department # of 11231. The issue we needed to review was whether this was the proper dept# since the owner of this department is Doug Wilhelm. Based on the above comments that roll-up reporting is used primarily for the purposes of identifying business area demand, and that IT reporting is not being done to their understanding by dept# but rather by project, we agreed that we should continue with the existing dept#.
Also, since Voyager SAP covers a number of business areas, we should continue to select existing IT dept#'s based on the source of the demand for the project, e.g., 11226 "IT Demand Finance - Harrison Porter" should be used for finance-demanded projects, 11229 "IT Demand Sales - Rick Ford" should be used for sales-demanded projects, etc. Where there was demand from a number of business areas, we could either assign the primary business area, or the general 11202 "IT Business Solutions". This would be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Discussed becoming a Planview Power User with Agustin. We agreed to set up two work sessions a week with him over the next three weeks (also with Ed Bartz) to dive deep into Planview. I set up six 2-hr training sessions.
Met with Marsha Cagle and Nicki to discuss my new role of being a coordinator of facility moves - specifically how the movement and renaming of printers affects SAP. They agreed to send a list of printer moves and dates to me to review with the team.
