Dumped right in it

[BolshieBastard]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Im really, really surprised people think that someone leaving, possibly being replaced under a cloud, should leave everything spic and span, with up to date notes to boot!

**** that! If \ when my client tells me Im being 'replaced' and Im to do a 'handover' to my replacement, I wont be giving him \ her the best of assistance either!

Sorry, its a hard life out here and Im not going to give any 'replacement' a ******* easy ride, especially at my expense (or should I say, my job!).

[d000hg]

Really? You're already being replaced so it's your job to do it... you know the thing they're paying £100s/day for until you leave.

Not to mention you shoot yourself in the foot if they ever want to expand their team.

[bobsyouruncle]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Im really, really surprised people think that someone leaving, possibly being replaced under a cloud, should leave everything spic and span, with up to date notes to boot!

**** that! If \ when my client tells me Im being 'replaced' and Im to do a 'handover' to my replacement, I wont be giving him \ her the best of assistance either!

Sorry, its a hard life out here and Im not going to give any 'replacement' a ******* easy ride, especially at my expense (or should I say, my job!).

BolshieBastard not just by name

[RichardCranium]

Back in 1996 I got a fantastic handover from a departing Development Manager. He had been offered The Gig Of A Lifetime so the client was letting him leave at short notice and I got the gig of replacing him at short notice.

He told me everything I needed to know to hit the ground running. And he was spot on with his advice and handover notes.

Many months later we got a request for a reference for him and I gave the agent a glowing reference for the bloke (knowing the civil service manager would not).

Don't tulip on the doorstep as you leave.

(Do it at the back of an obscure cupboard, or under the false floor in the machine room, or inside a server that's waiting to be installed.)

[suityou01]

He'll be surrounded by people freaking out at the moment i.e. "have you done it yet", "where are we" (that one really winds me up) . Not nice, so I hope he goes and gets that pint.

I excelled at that one this evening. Thanks Zips.

[suityou01]

Glad to hear sanity (sort of ) prevailed today.
Now all you have to do is buy the two-three weeks you'll need to
properly release all the 'extras'.

If the UAT has gone OK so far I'd go for the option of:-

1) copying UAT (only) to live. Assumes it doesn't have dependency on the untested stuff.
2) add all the extra bits from your predecessor's various places into UAT.
3) UAT and release the extras as a second release.

Anything else is courting disaster, don't be bullied into taking a chance.
Ask yourself/client why these features didn't go into UAT.

I know you know all this but I'm on the bench and bored.....

RS

Thanks mate. It's a shame you are on the bench, you could be out there fighting the good fight. You sounds like a good bloke to have around on a project. I wish you a speedy return to contracting (if you wish of course)

[suityou01]

They are not using SS correctly. SY01 is going to sort this out.

YOU BET I F****** AM. Sorry for shouting. I am going to lock down the UAT environment, and put the whole lot under change management as of 8am tomorrow morning. And if they don't like it, they can get someone else.

[Zippy]

YOU BET I F****** AM. Sorry for shouting. I am going to lock down the UAT environment, and put the whole lot under change management as of 8am tomorrow morning. And if they don't like it, they can get someone else.

Fcking good lad!!! Glad you enjoyed the pint

[SantaClaus]

They have put the go live back by a day. We are running some non functional tests tomorrow to test the deployment to a Pre Production server. Then should that all go well, we are going live.

In the mean time I am still trying to get UAT back in step. They have promised me that the rest of the week will be spent on process development so this never happens again. I think this may take longer than 3 days.

Deadline are always urgent until they are not met.
Its amazing how the stress disipates soon after

[Zippy]

Deadline are always urgent until they are not met.
Its amazing how the stress disipates soon after

But you stay wired for hours afterwards