Most of you know it already: last September I took the decision to quit my job and take a new position by Siemens Healthcare. I will stay in the Software Research&Development universe – of course – but will add a pretty big part of team management and software design/architecture to my daily (programming) tasks.
After two months of climax building, I definitely stepped out of the “development house” that hosted me days and nights evenings for the past two years. I came in this morning with 4 cakes, a big smile and a lot of hands to shake. I stepped out this afternoon with my rubber balls & plushes, a couple brownish coffee cups, a sense of leaving something behind and a small-but-wonderful present from my now ex-team. Ulf, the colleague I had most to do with (and the one I had most in common with actually) and I had been joking about it for the past 6 months, he did it: he offered me three “10-faces-dices” to help me make my soon-to-come management decisions :]
So, I guess I’m ready, I can stop swallowing management books, stop trying to find back all my C++ memories and better just concentrate on my dices-throw dexterity. Just kidding ; I have only 3 vacation days and one weekend to reach the third cover of all the books I started, finish a personal feedback of the last two years and start with yoga exercises to be Zen when I finally start next Monday… maybe I’ll manage to insert a few hours of sauna in the middle… we’ll see ;]