Two thousand dollars!
"Why'd you keep saying two thousand dollars?" said Cliff.
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"I've never had the chance to say two thousand dollars."
The above quotation is from Terry Pratchetts book Soul Music.
Ok, nothing much ever happens in this blog, because I've always got other things on my mind and I knd of forgot this blog because it felt a bit forced... but now my portfolio is back on track and I just want to advertise it a bit, if there's anyone left reading this blog!
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Never ending story
There's so much fun going on, and I really don't have the time to write it all down. The beauty blog I run is much easier. Don't know why but there the words just spill out of my finger tips.
Anyhow: we're working with our first real clients in this module, The project life cycle. Our client is Mycube. The project is really cool and exciting, but I'm not allowed to tell you anything about it. But I can tell you that I have a great team to work with, and the other day Erik really cheered me up by telling me I did a great job so far as a projekt manager.
This module runs paralell with the Marketing and promotion- and Portfolio modules. So you can guess all of us are buried in stuff to do.
Oh, and did I mention that I'm entering Young Lions this weekend? I teamed up with Agnes. I'm so excited!
Also, I'm relieved of the funeral. It will be on the 28:th. I'll miss out on Jills and Saras birthday party, as well as the evaluation for this module since I have to leave for Finland very early in the morninh that friday.
We'll see how I come along. Right now I feel fine. Requested some me time from my bf and this is my second night sleeping alone in my bed at home... since... christmas(?) I think. It's great having so much time alone to think. But I need to get better at producing in my spare time. I want to tell you about the fascinating journey as a project manager (this is my first time) and how incredible it is to have real clients and about the fascinating lectures we've had. But this weekend won't be the time to do that, I guess.
I've been thinking about switching the language in this blog to Swedish. I think the language could be a barrier, and that it may be the real reason why I hesitate to blog. Still, I really want to practice my language. We'll see what side wins this battle! Practice still has the upper hand!
Good girl?
Today we had uor first meeting with our client! I was alone in the group on being a bit nervous before the meeting, but then again we joked about it that all the responsibility was on me.
The meeting went fine, and my group was firing up on the project. We headed back to school (via an asian restaurant where we had lunch) and made ourselves a small office space.
Then we dug into the project plan, client journey and debrief and handed them in. I wrote the combined project plan and client journey and Fred write the debrief together with Hanna as Erik buried himself in the business plan.
When we'd handed in the assignments I went home. Got stuck in the metro because here was a problem with a train a few stations ahead. Got home, sat down... and started to feel drowsy. Spoke to my sis on the phone, she finally got an apartment in Gothenburg and is moving within two weeks.
The funeral will be the 28th of march. Have to travel the 26th or in the early morning the 27th so I'll miss out on the class evaluation of this module. Miss out and miss out, I won't be able to be there myself, but my group will present my feedback to the class and vice versa.
Got an email from our client not too long ago and felt the heavy duty of project managing on my shoulders. Should I reply now? This late? And prepare for tomorrow? Am I off duty and can I leave this until tomorrow?
I think I should have taken the opportunity to try this role earlier. But then, you never know what happens and I wasn't brave enough to challenge myself to that position before. Even if I haven't had this role in a project I've still had lots of time to observe others and learn about the group process... but I lack the experience of how to deal with these matters.
But then, this is our first real client assignment, so I don't know if the others are that much ahead..?
Injustice
Hello world.
I've never been the most faithful blogger. I've wanted to since yesterday. First we had an introduction to the new module, The Project Life Cycle, wherre we're getting our first clients. After the introduction we got to divide the class into ten groups depending on the desired roles, previous grouping and sex distribution. That was fun, and after some rearrangements in some groups we got our briefs.
I've felt low because of my my acne prone skin, and because I was ill so that I missed a lot of the Marketing and Promotion module (mostly because I missed so much of the process)... but school just turned interesting again and I started to feel energized. New week, new month, new module!
Today I had a meeting with my group and for once brought my cellphone to the meeting (just in case our client would call) and I got a text message. From mum. I joked that it wasn't anything important and that I could read it later (and I'm kinda glad I did so that I had time to focus on our assignment). Just when I was heading home I checked my phone and rememberd the text message!
A relative died yesterday. I never knew my grandmother, she died long before I was born. But Rakel was my grandmothers sister and the closest to a grandmother I've ever had. I loved her so much, but didn't tell her nearly enough.
So, no, I don't blog very faithfully... but I'm taking a break from the blog. I need to keep focus on my group and our project. I don't want to miss out on anything this module. I want to attend Young Lions. I want to have a great meeting with our client tomorrow...
My wish is that you tell all your loved ones how much you care about them. Give them a hug or a call. They deserve it!
Love and love
/Magdalena
Bye bye baby
Today I say goodbye to my baby. My black macbook, that is. I've had quite the problems with it since I bought it in August, but some of them neither I nor MacSupport can fix... like it not wanting to acknowledge usb-units. Fantastic.
Anyhow, today it'll be GONE for 7-10 days. Good thing I don't have to use it for the rest of this or next week.
Hush!
It's been quiet in this blog for quite a while now, and right now because I'm in the office. In the office of Smedby digital, doing some work shadowing. Hush! Or they'll see me!
Back in reality.
Last week I went on the Das Boot 23hour-cruise. It was so much fun! Unfortunatley not enough black lights to show off how cool my make up really was... and neither did I have a camera with me soooo... I'll just do it again some time to show you. At least I think it was really cool! Though almost impossible to wash off! Urban Decays primer potion + Stargazer eye shadow was a nightmare of endless scrubbing the eyes.
Oh, another fun thing was that several on the boat called me Carolina Klüft. The swedish athlete, if anyone knows..?
The rest of the weekend was just as fun, with a Glögg-party on Saturday. Glögg is a mkind of wine. It has a really really strong and sweet flavour, so I don't really like it. Did try a whinkey-glögg that was nice though!
Most of the day was spent cleaning and buying christmas decoration. All of the night we drank glögg and julmust. Julmust is like coke, but tastes SOOOO much better. And is only sold in december (bohoo!).
Now it's lovely Monday again. The dreaded first day of the week. We're having an all day-lecture today with Liz Sivell from Profero London. But more about that later. Lunch time is over and back to the lecture!
PS. Liz showed us this. Not suitable for work or under 18!
A "no" for an answer is just the start of a negotiation
This morning we had a short and inspirting lecture with Kaj Malmros. The purpose of the lecture was to inspire us, so the conclusion is that it went very well. He asked a lot if we were sleeping, because noone replied to his questions. Maybe we were just too amazed to answer?
Kaj is a really funny guy, who's started the most outrageous projects. Did you know that he started the Stockholm Water Festival?
Everything he told us about it and about never having any funds from the beginning, but having to raise fund for every project, and about the ways that he's done it and is doing it is great. I've been feeling low since the start of this module. After this lecture I feel a lot better. The train is back och track. Stupily turned the wrong way, since I'm still wearing the black hat (being negative). Still trying to take it off.
Also, yesterday I really tried to find someting for my individual assignment. But finding information on the digital media habits of 30-35 year old middle class imigrated men, living on the coutryside with interests such as fishing or driving their jeep... It's impossible!
Or is it? Does anybody know where to find any statistics or polls on this? I've found no answers througs SCA, and pay services is not of interest.
What to do? Poor Cinderelly!
Updates, where did they go?
Ok, so time flies. We all knew that. Maybe "later today" means one week from now..? Not really.
Anyhow, I just found this sweet piece. Keep updated on my blog via bloggkoll!
A new meeting
We are 12 students from DM10STO that are going to meet and discuss the YLVP students ideas. Their assignment is to "...develop a concept and prototype for a social media service/solution to be released in year 2010." In this stage they are to have come up with 5 ideas that we are going to listen to and give feedback on. Then they're going to continue their work and narrow it down to one.
This project is very similiar to the module we're having riht now. The YLVP students had 6 hours to create 5 ideas. We have 5 days to create 50 (deadline 5pm today).
Now we're going to meet the students!
Read more about the YLVP program here, and then I'll update about our meetings later today.
Photography skills
Last week I was asked by co-worker Klara if I would like to take some promo pictures of the students for Hyper island. Apparently Johan Dahlfors recommended me. Great thanks for that!
Anyhow, I shot a few pictures of our international students for the new recruitment tour. This is how one of them came out at the Reform & Revolution web page.
From the left: Byron Castro Cerda, Anne Mee Küther, Cecilie Lund Madsen, Ina Johansen and Frederico Philips.
Pretty neat, huh? You can read the article by Reform & Revolution here, or read Ina's blog post on the article here.
If you live abroad from Sweden, don't miss out on the Recruitment tour for the best school! Experience Technology 2008
I haven't had the time or energy to blog anything specific on the ET08 exhibition. I was in the Press group (part of the Exhibition group) and wrote the press release, invitations etc.
There was a lot of nervousness for the upcoming exhibition, and the peak was when we at the day of the exhibition stood without a prototype. The computer running electricity to our Micomico took a trip to Skåne, and we couldn't get the program to work on my Macbook. After a very very long time we got help from another groups technician and I was able to go to lunch. When I had just paid and was aiming for the fabolous lunch buffé I got a call from a number I didn't recognize. It was the Lars Kagg-students who were standing in the lobby, waiting for me to show them around and guide them to the exhibition.
PANIC!
I desperatly tried to reach the Exhibition groups project manager, Erik Öhlen, to get him to guide them. I had no idea that I was supposed to do it and didn't want to waste that lunch. Cheap as a student can get! I reached Erik and he said it was no problem, so I relaxed.
When back in school I got the lovely news that Mico was up and running and ready for exhibition. Soon thereafter I was filmed by a team that was making iterviews about the projects. My group wanted me to present Micomico, and I gladly did it!
Then the exhibition started, and people started pouring in! I had never expected there to be so many right at the opening! I didn't have time to stay for the whole exhibition since I was going to the Starbreeze 10 year anniversary, so I had to drop out on another filming on the projcet (this time on taking on an uncomfortable role in the group). But I told co-worker Micke that Anders would be better for the job, and the problem solved easily.
I ran off to the central station without having the time to try out all the projects, and would probably have missed the train to Uppsala because of the queue to the ticket machines if the train hadn't been late. Lucky me!
The anniversary party was great fun. A lot of people were a bit blue because 77 employees at Avalanche had been terminated, but everyone was still in a party mood, and soon the discussions on who should hire who began!
Unfortunatly the last train for Stockholm departures at 11:09pm, so we were quite the gang that had to miss the rest of the party.
Still, at home, I was satisfied and quite tired... but of course I didn't get to bed until several hours later.
This picture was taken before the dinner by UNT:
From the left: Magdalena Piechal (me), Sofia Göker, Joakim Hellstedt, Björn Albihn, Alvar Pernroth and Nilo Kabotea.
Read the article here. Funny thing, they didn't catch a single Starbreeze employee on this picture!
The end is near
Viveca Ljungdahl
One problem is that Tobias is not going to be at the exhibition, and since all code is in his computer we have to find someone willing to loan us their Mac. The code will not work on a PC unfortunately. So that is what we have to look into tomorrow, that and preparing the presentation.
I think the exhibition will be so much fun, I am curious to try out everyone else’s cool prototypes. From what I have seen today it will be amazing! It is hard to believe its only two weeks work.
And since this is my last blog post I would like to thank my group mates and partners in crime! You have been great, thank you for bad jokes about chokladbollar and stuff, hard work and everything else.
Mico pictures:
Paint it black
Nicklas Högberg
Today has me and Anders been making the "foot" of Mico and the foreground to our superb sign.
We were located in the garbage room, so the smell wasn't that nice but the results were much nicer.
It is now 2 days left for the first exhibition and 3 to the final and big one, I'm really looking forward to see all the cool projects my classmates and the students from Karlskrona has been working on.
Mico is almost ready for the show, but today we stumbled over a problem. Tobias is going to Skåne on friday and we are running Mico on his computer. We need a mac computer to make the code and the arduino to communicate with flash. So tomorrow we have to ask some gentle soul so lend us his/hers mac computer, or else make the Arduino2Flash work for PC.
Well i'm not nervous, the problem will be solved.
Here is some pictures from the building of the foot and the sign, take care. / Nicklas
We were located in the garbage room, so the smell wasn't that nice but the results were much nicer.
It is now 2 days left for the first exhibition and 3 to the final and big one, I'm really looking forward to see all the cool projects my classmates and the students from Karlskrona has been working on.
Mico is almost ready for the show, but today we stumbled over a problem. Tobias is going to Skåne on friday and we are running Mico on his computer. We need a mac computer to make the code and the arduino to communicate with flash. So tomorrow we have to ask some gentle soul so lend us his/hers mac computer, or else make the Arduino2Flash work for PC.
Well i'm not nervous, the problem will be solved.
Here is some pictures from the building of the foot and the sign, take care. / Nicklas
Bar star
Anders Ekman
We got the microphone to work (thanx Emilia), the material for the sign is arriving monday and Magdalena is going to try an alternative solution for the eyes this weekend so today we devoted time to construct the Mico web-page. The sofware still needs to be adjusted but Toby doesn´t seem to be worried so I guess it´s cool. I´m looking forward to assemble MicoMico next week and to get down and dirty with preparing the sign.
Ok, I´m out of stuff to write about! It´s raining outside, my classmates are crazy from Friday-frenzy and I am dying for a glass of wine.
Well, now it´s time for me to do some real work and then go home.
Auf Wiedersehen, Nach Hause Gehen...
Ok, I´m out of stuff to write about! It´s raining outside, my classmates are crazy from Friday-frenzy and I am dying for a glass of wine.
Well, now it´s time for me to do some real work and then go home.
Auf Wiedersehen, Nach Hause Gehen...
