spend more time on my KM project and overcome my anxieties involving this endeavour

It went well, not brilliant, but well enough I suppose. Of course, I’d be thrilled if he showed more enthusiasm but I figured, I won’t push it. There’s lots more to be done. We’re far from finish and of course, once this goes live, more work will follow.

I honestly believe in KM. I truly believe that when people share, out of sincerity and mutual respect, great things can happen. But this world we live in, at times it’s survival of the fittest, the fastest, the one who cares the least. I know it’s not always like that, but it sure feels that way sometimes.

Still, my mandate is not yet complete. But by hook by crook, I’m getting this off my plate by end June. I did not commit this deadline to anyone, just myself, coz I feel I’ve invested too much and too long on this already.

The team really pulled through and gave it their all. The latest review we had allowed me to breathe a sigh of relief. At least we have an actual working portal now. The main components are there, all that’s left are some tweaking and beefing up of content with more relevant bits & pieces of info. As always, better late than never!

..I think of this hanging over my head, I just want to roll up into a ball or simply disappear. Not going as well as I hope it would. :(

Seriously.. no more funny business. No more wishy-washy, try and error. We have got to get this show on the road like.. last month. Yeah, I’m behind schedule but weirdly enough, my boss is cutting me some slack. Phew.. OK, can’t get lucky much longer now.

• Enterprise search – almost sorted.. needs some fine tuning, but the bulk of the work is behind me
• KM User Profile – rolled out to pilot users.. fingers-crossed now
• Interface development.. in progress

We still have more to do, but the momentum is building up and I’m focusing on moving forward, instead of spending energy worrying and fussing over things I can’t control.

for the weekend. Must do this, must not get distracted, must not give in to silly temptation consisting of lounging around doing nothing!

..we’re behind deadline. Technical glitches have rendered the chosen platform utterly useless. I hate it when technology fails in such spectacular fashion. Time to do this old school..

Spent 2 hours preparing a mock-up of the interface. I’m glad I did this, I hope this will anchor our development effort from hereon. Hell, I’ll build it on html if I have to, just give me a freakin Dreamweaver and I’ll get cookin’. I’m quite sick of all all the portal products promising everything but delivering nothing. We have the back-end repositories already. I don’t care if access is restricted to a native client for the time being, the web-enablement can come much later.

What we need to kick off pronto is the enterprise search. This bit needs to run on steroids, seriously. It has to be able to search cross databases, intranets as well as websites. I have a candidate in mind, but it’s not yet installed. This is partly my fault, I should have expedited this component instead of waiting for the portal engine to be ready. Oh well, no point harping on this. I have a meeting with one of the software development managers tomorrow. I hope that goes well.. fingers-crossed!