The company I’m working for has seen lots of change in the last couple of weeks – management consultant arrives, very senior permanent staff leave, more staff leave, etc., etc.

It’s all good, hopefully, if the consultant delivers. I’d like to get involved, as I have a lot of ideas about how to improve both the production process and (more importantly for a ROI point of view) the business model.

So I’m setting up my own company, and trying to do a full-time job at the same time. There’s a lot of admin to completed before I’m in a place just to let the business run itself and get on with work proper.

Nonetheless, it’s giving me the boost in momentum needed when working in a fairly boring contract. The company I’m currently working is very mixed, for several reasons: it’s recently been bought out, so is going through a merge and cross-over of personnel; its project pipeline is stuffed way beyond what it can handle; its account handlers don’t know that it’s possible (and frequently advisable) to say no to the clients.

The project I’m working on is delayed by creative issues and re-workings (how does Agile deal with creatives?), whilst the technical side is either sown up or can’t move any further without assets.

Aha, creatives and process. I guess the reason that there’s so much written about process from a technical POV is that no-one has a clue how to deal with the bloody creatives. Surely solving that conundrum would make me a millionaire. And the answer’s not just putting one’s foot down and demanding greater adherence to process.