2020 New Year Resolution
It's been a while to write a blog but it's again a time to review 2019 and declare new year's resolution.
Review of 2019
This is my goal for 2019 which I wrote on 1st Jan. shoutm.hatenablog.com
I declare these goals below. I reviewed which items I could / couldn't achieve.
- Legend
- ✅=Win: Perfectly / Almost achieved
- ❌= Lose: Didn't start trying yet
- ⚠ = Draw: Started but not achieved
- 💔= Scope out: don't need to work because of environmental change
Work
Performance measurement against my goal
- ✅Complete the vFW(vSRX) "Day2" project.
- 💔Release more variable features of VCF
- ⚠ Become a VMware specialist
- Acquire certifications of VCP6.5-DCV and VCF6-NV
- ❌Got a TOEIC score of over 950
1 Wins, 1 Loses, 1 Draw, 1 Scope out
As for vSRX Day2 project, we have faced a big issues that vSRX3.0 stopped forwarding packets when NFS disconnected. So we changed our plan from using vSRX3.0 to using 2.0. But again we found several problems (again stopped forwarding packets in several situations). However my colleague made a script which rescues vSRXs which lapsed into the situations. Finally we could confirm an adequacy of its quality and decide to release this version.
As for VCF, we changed our priority to work so didn't touch this topic at all. Instead, we have worked on baremetal server v3 flavor integration and started planning of containerization of baremetal controller.
As for VMware speciality, I finished a course of VMware Networking study and got a certificate of "VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization 2019". I could understand the basics of VMware networking and useful features customers may want. It will helps me working on VMware related project in the future.
As for English, I have not had a noteworthy activities in this year. I had a TOEIC exam once in this year but of course I couldn't achieve 950.
Events in 2019
Promoted as a senior manager
This completely changed my mindset and behavior in this year. My responsibility was changed from doing my best as individual to bringing out the best performance of my team. So I spent my time for my team members rather than me. What I made a strong effort to is 1 on 1 meeting with my team members. I did F2F meeting with each member for 30 minutes every 2 weeks. I also bought several books for it.
- シリコンバレー式 最強の育て方 ―人材マネジメントの新しい常識 1on1ミーティング
- ヤフーの１ｏｎ１―――部下を成長させるコミュニケーションの技法
- マネジメント［エッセンシャル版］
Generally speaking, feedbacks from them are quite good at this moment. But I don't know the cost effectiveness of this.
Transferred to NTT Ltd
At the same time I was assigned as a senior manager, I and a large number of my colleagues are transferred to NTT Ltd. This is not a big change for me at this moment against my expectation because the migration is still on the way and big waves will come this year. I am actually so excited because I prefer to work abroad (or with colleagues from other countries).
Technical skills
- Started Qiita
- A couple of contents were posted. I think keep studying technical stuffs are still very important even after becoming a management role so I'll keep posting.
- Started building my own kubernetes cluster on vmware at my home to study k8s and vmware
- Started rewriting ecl-resource-analytics-client (again in ruby) https://github.com/tamac-io/ecl-resource-analytics-client
- I dispatched it form the repository of ecl-resourece-analytics (server side) http://github.com/tamac-io/ecl-resource-analytics so that I could use the latest ruby runtime (2.7.0 which was released on 25th Dec 2019)
- At this moment, I'm writing unit tests earnestly !! This is good for me to understand rspec-mock more and how to write testable code.
Private
Performance measurement against my goal
- ✅Take a family trip to somewhere (best suited for my daughter?)
- ⚠ Go to a gym twice a week
- ✅Take a record of Gym attendance.
- ❌Exchange Christmas presents
- ❌Stay in the hotel which we stayed in our wedding
- ✅Go to the Anpanman museum and the Disneyland
- ✅Go see a movie of Bohemian Rhapsody
3 Wins, 2 Loses, 1 Draw
As for family trip, we went to:
- Trip to Sendai (to my little brother's house)
- Also went to Anpanman museum(http://www.sendai-anpanman.jp/)
- Trip to Awaji(without my wife)
- Tokyo Disney land x 1
- Sanrio puroland(https://en.puroland.jp/) x 1
- Tokyo summer land(https://www.summerland.co.jp/english/) x 1
- Seibuen amusement park(https://www.seibu-leisure.co.jp/) x 3
- Tama zoo(https://www.tokyo-zoo.net/sp/english/tama/) x 1
Awaji trip was very tough to me. My daughter is afraid of strangers and can't get used to new places so she has been crying almost all the night at a hotel on the first day. And worse, I received a phone call for a production issue at 3 or 4 am. It was tough. But she was getting used to gradually, I felt her growth.
As for gym, I built a easy workflow to record my gym activity as below. The result: I went to the gym 44 times last year. 1 year = 52 weeks so the result was less than half of my expectation. Throughout this year, my goal was too high. I have to revise this. shoutm.hatenablog.com
Events in 2019
Life plan holidays for changing nursery of my daughter
I took a week of life plan holidays. This is my first time to take it. I have to take it for my daughter but I think it's a good welfare program.
New year Resolution in 2020
Work
Todo
- More time for service development: more than 40% of our working time
- Current percentage: around 20%
- Containerization of baremetal controller
- Keep acquiring skills and output
Stop doing
- Looking at slack all my working time: Keep the number of following channel less than 30 each workspace.
- Now I'm in 10 workspaces, 200+ channels. I realize slack often distracts my attention.
Private
Todo
- Prioritise my family than work: Leave the office on time twice a week
- My daughter is now three years old. This time should be the cutest time in her life so I spend more time with my daughter this year.
- Keep myself healthy: Lose my weight to 55kg
- Go to a gym once a week
- Use bicycle than bus
- Start investment
- Read more than 5 books
- Invest around 3% of my asset this year
- Planning buying home (within two years)
