09-13 May 2011 - The week started off with a 3-day dissection of Spring, a light-weight framework for building enterprise applications that provides a relatively flexible platform for integrating with various technologies such as Hibernate, EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) and AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming). Sorry, no jargon busting techniques available. As with other technology sessions we attended, this too had a practical (writing code) aspect to demonstrate the various modules of the framework.
Now, with the preliminary discussions about the hands-on project having taken place last week, the focus was on evaluating how well this project meets individual and organisational needs (in RMB's case). The formalities (in terms of presenting a proposal and discussion thereof) took their cause and concluded with the initiation of a second project/assignment specifically for my needs, while Khathu continued to start work on the Fantasy Teams - Online Auction project. The project I proposed focuses on IT Service Management and the deliverable is a model that will be based on ITIL which should be comparable to what RMB has in place, but improved. Process hinders productivity when it contains activities that do not add value.
Process components (http://tinyurl.com/5wl5je6)
The highlight of the week has to be the feedback telecon we had with our managers at RMB which had Nihilent representatives as well as RMB Learning and Development representatives. The core of the meeting was to provide feedback on the training thus far, which came at the most opportune time given that we were about to start to the project and had already completed 3 weeks of technology training. The main results were a confirmation of the hand-on projects as well as slight changes that were initially unplanned but had to be incorporated going forward. It is the first time RMB is doing this after all. Shweet!
Player. Sold
It was quite difficult to illustrate how the proposed project wouldn't cater for some of the core learning expectations I had off it. Eventually, we overcame that issue and everyone is getting what they what.
The potential challenge with my project is ensuring that I don't re-invent the wheel. My deliverable has to be something that will add value. Not a simple demonstration that I can develop a service management model. But ja, it should be fine. I have the right contacts around here and that sure will come-in handy in the process of reviewing my work.
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