I guess I’m not blogging much. I’ll try my best to fix that.
These days I’m occupied as a java developer at a company called Cicero Consulting. The company is a combination of several services, but they are all related to banking and finances. Luckily in a way that shouldn’t hurt us to much during the economic downturn.
The company is like a small family, and we’re currently about 20 people working there. We have 8 developers that does consultancy and product development. I started out with product development in on our core product called Cicero Financial Planner. It is product delivered in various forms to major actors in the Norwegian banking sector and enables them to do effective client counseling.
Fast forward to november and I was sent out as a junior consultant to a (for me) large project related to the financial field. Being a consultant is in many pretty different from working in the office. Both good and bad. I’ll probably write a post on this later as I get more time to compare. But the biggest change is perhaps working in a focused team again.
In the product developer setting we were 2-3 developers working on different parts of the product. This meant that you felt somewhat alone with what you were working on. In one way this was bad. It raised the threshold of starting a conversation about the aspect you were working on. I guess this is perhaps a bad personality trait that I have. I’ll work on it. On the other hand it also gave a lot responsibility and freedom to influence decisions during the development process. A huge bonus.
In the team and project context (in my specific case at least) the roles are somewhat reversed. There’s plenty of opportunity to discuss the different topics of the ongoing development process within the team, but smaller opportunities to be a part of decisions. This is both good and bad. It allows you to offload this work to others (or, it newer reach you), but it is frustrating when (in my eyes) bad decisions have are made. The decisions can also take quite a lot of time to clarify with the customer. Which is pretty frustrating when they’re minuscule in my eyes.
So, what do I favor? I can’t decide. Working for yourself, being your own boss and being allowed to make decisions contra the interaction and focus in a team. I think both have their merits. Either way, change is good and conditioning.
I guess that sums up my current status as to work.
