Wot Larks

We are setting up a new computing lab and for some reason I (ahem) am in charge of sorting most of it out. The builders are in and we are nervously looking at schedules and trying to make sure that everything is in a position to go live in mid September when all the students come back. It is kind of important, in that 150 or so workstations are not the kind of thing that we can easily do without. Today was something of a crunch time, in that we had to perform the timetable allocation between the four departments involved.

I was all set up for a marathon meeting and a bit worried as to whether we could sort it out between us. In the end it worked out swimmingly. Rather than a bunch of people fighting over resources and trying to get the best deal for their department we had instead a bunch of people all trying to solve the same puzzle by changing the shape of their pieces as we went along. In the end everything fitted together and we have what looks like a workable first draft of a timetable. I'm not saying it was fun particularly, but it was constructive all the way, which is wonderful in itself. Thanks folks.