I’m glad to read this confession/invitation from a “situated geek” to their younger/older peers.

Today El Pais (www.elpais.com), a main newspaper in Spain, has announced deeper reforms in our car traffic public administration (named it the DGT or the bloody Big Brother of the highways). Well, this is about my work.

All these stuffs about faster/better/easier interaction between Public administration and the citizenship has been a huge effort of different teams in different rooms, with their tabloids, whiteboards, a particular “buzz & flow”. I use to describe myself as a multi-team joker. I act, I teach culture and govern, I let them to govern themselves and I search the next team.

The sense of this work:

The number of deaths in car accidents here in Spain have been reduced in 70% in last 20 years (my dad died fatally in 1989 involved in a car accident). We are moving faster from the last year (25% reduction) to the current (we hope another 20% less). We encourage all the public administration with our model of IT.

As long as I know, we are getting the more agile approach we can in our environment. The TTC (Time to Completion) has been reduced 40% from the first Gantt plans.

You make all this stuff, the humanity behind the computer, the humanity in front of it, shine with proper bright. It’s not a shame to be human (except if you become so crazy as HAL-9000). It’s great, in general.

Nice to read you, again

Daven