My trip to Florida started out as training. I came to the RosettaNet conference, originally, to learn about what RosettaNet is and get oriented on how it works. But, once I got here, it seemed to have morphed into something very, very different.
The project I'm here for--defining an industry standards for indirect materials quality data--really bubbled up to the top priority once I got here, and right from the moment I checked in at the hotel desk on Saturday!
I rode from the airport with a group of people, and when I checked in ahead of a couple of the women, they recognized my name as being here to help run the CofA project. One of them--Annabelle--was our RosettaNet contact for our project. I got a few hours to discuss the project with her dinner Saturday, and she hooked me up with one of the technical gurus on Sunday. Even before the training started, I already accomplished a lot of the project.
A little planning meeting on Monday morning turned into a large planning meeting a huge benefit to the meeting on Tuesday.
And then, the meeting I ran on Tuesday, turned out truly excellently! Everyone bought into using agile metholodogy for the meeting, and the course of the meeting changed each iteration (each hour). We even used pairing--we split into pairs to fill in details sections of the document. The speed at which we moved was amazing. We advanced our upcoming schedule by almost a month by everyone getting together in person.
As a "celebration" to the successful meeting, I decided to tag along and went shopping with three of the women. Yeah, it sounded much more interesting than sittin' around the room watching movies. We wandered around the outlet mall for hours, and I got some cool pirate scarves for me and the girls.
After dinner, they were flexible enough to tag along with me and go to the Rockport outlet. A couple years ago when I came back for Tech Ed, I went there (by recommendation by a local place), got two pair of shoes, and they are the ones I've worn to work ever since then. The Rockport store in AZ Mills is lame, so I figured I'd check there. Well, I scored! I got three pair of Rockport shoes (with the advice of not one, not two, but three women!)
I'm feeling rather spoiled. One of the partner companies has been very inviting to me and has been treating me exceedingly well. They've included me in after hours dinners; I've gotten to make some very, very strong interpersonal relationships that should help this (and maybe future) RosettaNet projects. They've been very appreciative of my organizational and leadership skills for the meeting. I'm feeling very complimented.
About Me
- Martin C. Nagel
- Martin works as an Application Developer and Technical Lead at a large manufacturing company in the Phoenix valley. In that role, he writes and maintains a quality application that checks the quality of the materials used in the manufacturing process. He has a variety of programming skills in various web, batch processing, and database languages. He has been developing computer applications professionally at five companies since graduating with his Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems from DeVry in 1985. He has additional professional interests. He participates in a variety of safety teams as an office ergonomics assessor, emergency response team leader, and safety communications. He also teaches classes about agile thinking and database unit testing. Outside of work, he occasionally teaches and performs as a middle eastern drummer, lift weights, and spends time with his wife and two daughters. He's an avid supporter of the U.S. Bill of Rights 2nd Amendment, a National Rifle Association (NRA) life member, certified NRA instructor for five NRA classes, shooting range life member, Arizona Citizens Defense League (AzCDL) member and volunteer, and runs 2nd Amendment Shop, L.L.C.
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