Apologies for
the long interval between postings, at the end of May I went on vacation to
Hawaii. Just at the end of the second week I became, in medical slang, a CABG,
no not the vegetable, I was the recipient of a cardiac arterial bypass graft,
three of them to be precise. Some end to a vacation!
One of the
interesting events during my medical treatment occurred on the morning of the
actual operation. I was literally wheeled into the operating theatre, moved to
the operating table, surrounded by a surgical team all bustling about their
duties when all of a sudden the cardiologist calls "Time Out". At
which the entire surgical team paused and was asked to give details of what
they knew about the operation and raised any questions they might have. So I
knew that it was me they believed they where operating on and what they were
going to do to me. So it was a "Scrum Meeting", Needless to say I was
paying close attention to what everyone was saying. They even asked me if I had
anything to say. Silently I hoped that they were all on their “A” game.
My second thought was that I can't get away
from project management even in extremis!
Needless to say
it was successful, so chalk it up to another success for Agile practices.
