A New Direction

This week marks a new direction for me.  I’ve been asked to take on a new role at RedPrairie, and I’m very excited about it.  We are kicking off a new user experience initiative and have formed a new agile development team for it.  I’m serving as the Project Manager / Business Analyst for the project.

This is quite a different role than what I’ve done for the last 16 years at Software Architects and RedPrairie.  It’s not a technical role in that I will not be doing any development work.  Instead I will help guide the vision for the new product.  That means I’ll be working with our project stakeholders to create user stories.  I’ll also be helping set the priorities for these stories and help the agile team set their priorities and slot them into sprints. 

I will still have the same reports I do now, but will not be involved in the day-to-day development or support of my ‘old’ products.  This will free me up to focus on this new task… a task that is moving very quickly and has some very aggressive goals. 

I’ll probably miss some of the technical aspects of my current job, but will not miss the support responsibilities that seem to always dictate why I can or have to work on every week. 

I also think this new position means a lot of opportunity for me and I look forward to tackling the new challenge.