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Monday - 'Bon Voyage London'

I get up at 6.30 and get ready to travel to Southend-on-Sea for the week.  This is where my client is based and I’m generally there three to four days a week.  I grab my suitcase and get the tube to Liverpool St.  After fighting the morning rush I board my train to Southend and spend the best part of an hour reading the newspaper.

I arrive at 9.30 and catch-up with my team – which is solely a client team.  My team work on a single project and this, together with another 6 projects, makes up a larger transformation programme.  Today I’m going to start a new piece of requirements analysis work that my business manager set me.  Since the majority of the projects within the programme are in a ‘define’ stage, it is imperative to ensure all their requirements are aligned.  The work that I will be commencing will help align non-functional requirements across the programme.  I discovered that the simplest technique to capture any requirement gaps or misalignments is to create a requirements matrix.  This will be used as a template when collecting the various requirements from each project.  Most of today is spent talking or emailing the project mangers to locate the relevant requirements documentation.  Although I haven’t got much to show for today’s work, I have built the foundations and it has set me on track for the next few days.

At 18.00 I get a taxi to the hotel that I’ve booked into and settle down for a beer and some dinner.