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If you've been following my tweets you know that I accepted a new job yesterday. What I didn't reveal was my new employer. Before the end of this month I'll be joining IBM/Rational and working as a Web 2.0 Architect. I'm not sure how much I can say about what I'll be working on, so I won't be blogging too much about work until I figure that out. I think I can safely say this: I'm thrilled about this new job and the folks that I'll be working with. In the near term, it looks like my workmates will be @pmuellr and @BillHiggins and I'll be learning a lot about Jazz.
I feel very fortunate to have found such an excellent position a fairly tough job market and I'm more than ready to start working on new things. Thanks to everybody who helped out by recommending me, blogging about me, offering encouragement and taking the time to interview with me.
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11:05AM Mar 12, 2009
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Welcome aboard Dave!
As for "I'm not sure how much I can say about what I'll be working on, so I won't be blogging too much about work until I figure that out.". Everyone you'll be working with in Rational are strongly in favor of transparency - that's why we created Jazz.net.
I'd say that the only thing to be careful about is being clear about what you're committed to delivering vs. interesting problems you're working on but for which you don't have a solution in hand.
For instance, I've recently been looking at whether we could/should get Jazz development widgets and data into Lotus Mashups. I've convinced myself that this would be a Good Thing, but right now we're fuzzy on how we get there. So when I talk about it, I say "We're looking at it and it has promise, but we don't have a solution in hand".
So in summary: we try to be clear about when we're speculating so that we don't set unrealistic expectations with customers and later disappoint them if speculation fails to transition to executable software.
I suspect it would be fine to talk about the problems you'll be working on, and of course we don't have all of the answers yet. Let's be frank - if we had all of the answers then I doubt we could have made the case for you!
Finally, I think it would be interesting to read your public musings about some of the problems you'll be working on, to see what discussion it might trigger. I've actually been meaning to do more of this but have been busy trying to deliver the things we have committed for our 2009 releases!
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Thanks for the kind words folks. And Bill, thanks for the blogging advice. That's just what I like to hear. I'm "strongly in favor of transparency" too and, like you, wish I had a little more time for it.
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