Oct 16 – Tuesday. I’m gonna get fat! Great homemade lunch for us again today at our client location. We had many vegetables along with fried smelt. Monday’s fish was Hair Tail (face of a fish, body of an eel). We worked in our conference room this morning getting organized for our daily stand up, we’re using Design Thinking; along with documenting edits to our Statement of Work (SOW).
We headed over to the IBM office. There are clearly marked roadway lanes, but car drivers, scooters, bike and pedestrians clearly don’t think they apply to them. At times, it feels like a Formula One raceway. I’m learning to adapt: I close my eyes on the freeway, I walk boldly into traffic now as my new friend Nikki has taught me, and look in front and behind me for scooters when walking on streets and sidewalks. Lots of horn blare loudly, which I’m learning to block out, as I learn to stop hitting the imaginary brake in whatever seat I’m in. Did I mention that I’m scared.
The IBM Ring (brand new Client Center, Research Lab, and office space) is absolutely amazing. WOW, WOW, WOW. Hard to describe all of the cool stuff we saw and did, like the Galaxy 2, but it felt a lot like Star Trek, right down to how some doors open/close. As a #cscchina42 Team, we had a roundtable with other IBMers there to discuss CSC and Work-Life Integration thanks to our @citizenIBM citizenship manager, Winnie Song.
Even with all of the high tech, the most rewarding part of the day was the opportunity I had to see the web developers working on my Ecosystem projects; whom I met in Littleton, Massachussetts, USA: Tina, Faye, Amy, Ivy and Gavin. Mary, the manager, took me around and introduced me to several squads and I had the extreme pleasure of saying “THANK YOU” in person, on behalf of our Ecosystem and DBG Teams, to the amazing developers who are helping the IBM partner Ecosystem accelerate to Software as a Service. This team ROCKS!!!
Harriet's CSC China 42 Adventures 