Last days at GN
In the last week here, I’ve had little email. It was a little disconcerting at first, this feeling of not being busy and useful. Thankfully its no going to be for long - the end of the week is rapidly approaching, and I’d better start cleaning up.
By the end of this week, I will have left GN and everything I’ve worked for behind. While cleaning out my old files, I was struck by the amount of ground I had covered. Everything from RosettaNet to ebXML (though that one didn’t take off), from the latest hype in technology to evaluating mundane projects. I’m grateful for having had this opportunity, but I have made my decision to move on.
My final tasks are to provide training for others who will be assuming my responsibilities. I’ve completed a basic introduction to Perl as a “quick-and-dirty” means of script writing for our consultants to extend GT. The response was lacking in the enthusiasm that I had expected and a minor disappointment.
Over the next two days, I will be handing over the training material for Web Services. I’ve conducted this course twice, and others will replace me in the future. The difficulty would be to impart the background knowledge for Web Services to others, as much of the material is not “off-the-book”. Each module has to be understood in its context and not so much as in its specifics.
Web Services not a critical a skill for GT implementors, but more of a basic technology requisite for future work. In fact, Web Services will play an increasing role in future IT projects, although its been severely over-hyped by some of its major proponents. Nevertheless, its deployment today lays the foundation for future integration work.