Woke up early this morning to spend a day with my new client in Uxbridge, not far from our offices in Egham or my hotel near Heathrow. After a little disagreement with the GPS system in the car (which wanted to take me into the middle of the countryside), I finally found the client site:

I’ll be working here for the next few months, until February or March 2006. We started today with a kick-off workshop. Don’t we look productive with our yellow stickies, collaborating and building buy-in from our customers?

Actually, all kidding aside, I enjoy workshops. They’re a lot of work to put together, but generally yield lots of good stuff in a very short period of time, if they’re run successfully. They’re also a nice change from the routine of paperwork and Powerpoint presentations.

Oh yeah. And I get to use magic markers and draw a lot. And scissors. They even let me use the scissors on workshop day.