First IT Managers "Away Day"

Well to reassure in these budget conscious times it wasn't away (it was Horton Building) and although it included a sandwich (menu A) I went to the co-op and provided the biscuits, croissants, chocolate twisty pastries and crisps - and the supplementary food was definitely needed after 6 straight hours with only comfort breaks thrown in. We had a presentation from Richard on his recent asignment from the PGCert module covering an IT Services marketing audit. We discussed the Leeds College of Music in order to provide an updated document to the project board later that day with updated costs. We spent the majority of time (2.5 hours) on going through the draft plan and the individual team plans developed so far for 2009/10. Sara joined us for an hour to cover the governance and "account management" discussions which was really productive - we may have an emerging plan. Finally we covered some further areas around the new structure including some labels (which are being slept on). So overall a very good use of time. At the end, it felt like a very intense day - and we also seemed to generate a productive set of ideas, actions and agreements. Thanks to all.