April 28, 2016

Finish: Work on our final deliverables

During our final days, my time feels very limited. This Thursday, we have to deliver our final presentation to our client Puerta 18. At the beginning of this week, we collected our workitems. We realized that we will need to also describe some aspects a bit more in detail. Hence, we decided to start a strategy document. With this, our final handover will consist of three virtual items:
  1. The wiki that I already described in an earlier posting. Our project assistant Juami has done an excellent job in translating the contents, and he also designed a great entry page.
  2. The strategy document (in Word) that we just started on Monday after a brainstorming session (photo: see below) about what should be in it. 
  3. The Powerpoint presentation in which we describe our approach, the process and what we finally created as deliverable for our client.
As this amount of work kept us quite busy, we spent two evenings in the conference room of our hotel. A nearby supermarket (almost every block has one) provided us with crackers, cheese, salami - and some wine! We made good progress, and before I call it a day now (last action: Publish this posting), I feel quite confident. We succeeded in finalizing the Powerpoint storyline and only have few tasks left, such as polishing some slides and re-check the content. Maybe we will even be able to perform a trial run of our presentation. Keep your fingers crossed!

As tomorrow evening, right after our presentation (which is at 4-6pm) a team dinner with special guest José Cáceres (Director of SAP CSR - Región Latin América y del Caribe) is planned. He will also be at Puerta 18 with us - and we will see him once more on Friday during the closing event at SAP Argentina. Our program will be done by Friday early afternoon, and we plan to celebrate the last evening as a team with a dinner. 

Maybe I will be able to write a posting about all this on Friday or on Saturday before leaving to the airport - or will do so right after I returned to my home town Nußloch, back to my husband Peter and our two cats Schrödinger and Kopernikus.

Important tools 1: Our list of workitems

Important tools 2: Our access to cheese and wine