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Work week

Spent the week trying to get things in place as I expected to start 4 weeks of paternity leave at any moment from next week.

Mostly this meant:

  • a lot of discussions and planning of what would be possible in the next quarter with reduced team capacity (we also have vacant roles)
  • sharing useful existing documentation, like our team playbook and design hypotheses, with our new product manager
  • checking that new content designer knows where things are at with the framework content for the new profession so they can run with it from now on
  • helping new delivery manager run our monthly governance meeting and set up the voting process for two proposals using GOV.UK Forms and Notify
  • some of my main job - trying to do what I said I would do for each of the working groups currently drafting new descriptions, either:
    • scheduling co-writing sessions for when I’m back
    • editing draft content ready for wider community fact-checking in April

All these were accomplished to varying levels of success (in the order above, from ‘most sorted’ to ‘least sorted’) and none were completed. This is probably because I was attempting them all at once. So it goes.

A lot of my thinking was, “it’s ok, I can finish this, this and this on Monday”.

But there’s a lot of ‘new’ next to those roles in my team, so I was feeling the pressure to set people up for success in case I went off suddenly.

Well that Monday morning brought our new baby daughter, 10 days ‘early’.

And I think everything’s going to be fine.

See y’all in 4 weeks!

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