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[minestrone]

Why if it has been properly tested and does not work is it the dev teams fault...

it should be pulled and re-tested correctly during working hours

Absolutely no chance I would spend more than an hour on the thing.

Absolutely no chance I would even bother to get into the who's fault game anyway. If it don't work it don't work, I never committed an assault on a member of staff.

I'm sure the permies see that differently though.

[minestrone]

Bobs doing the release are posted missing.

Useless.

[adubya]

Review at 3pm. Going live on a Friday is very common.

For two-bit, poxy systems* yes.


* excel spreadsheet with, gasp - macros.

[suityou01]

For two-bit, poxy systems* yes.


* excel spreadsheet with, gasp - macros.

It's a two-bit poxy company to be fair

[MarillionFan]

It's a two-bit poxy company to be fair

That's one more bit than you then.

[suityou01]

That's one more bit than you then.

Don't

Come 4pm the revelation that the data migration had been botched hit home, hard. Seriously working with planks of wood.

Sleeves rolled up and got on with the necessary hacks to bail us out of the tulipe. I of course indicated a rollback was the only professional option.

I've had to do worse in the past, this was only category 5 hacking of data. Still there's one dba more on the bench now

[milanbenes]

I love it.

The culmination of all our hard work and planning. Sitting here with a IM window scrolling past with all the infrastructure guys ticking things off the deployment schedule. All running to time.

Nice to get a win before I head to the bench.

Is this the first project to deliver on time in the history of IT?

Better yet I heard the ERP vendor sent a formal letter of compaint to Client Co blaming our project for their delays owing to insufficient data quality. I just pulled a document I wrote yonks ago, citing the agreed data deliverables, assumptions, caveats etc. It's getting all "law-suitish", but I think that document might just have blown the whole compaint out of the water.

All they way along I asked for acceptance criteria. They didn't provide, so I wrote my own and sent it to them for sign off in August. Clever suity.

Anyone else going live today? Quite a dos.

Suity good for you like

But what do you mean by the erp vendor ?

My son, in the world of erp this is only one vendor and like in highlander, there can be only one

and that is our very own .net

and if you refer to your erp vendor as the erp vendor then you're obviously not working with .net

and if you're not working with .net you're not working with erp

so rather say, your SME Management Information System vendor

just wanted to point that out like

all the best

Milan.

[suityou01]

Sap is not ERP? Your tulipting me?

[milanbenes]

If you've joined our .net gravy train good for you

they dont normally work on the implementation thats normally for their partners hence probably why they didnt reply to your email

anyways that aside good for you for getting jnto the orbit of the .net gravy train

Milan.

[minestrone]

Got out at 6:30, endless bob communications to them who were running the updation. "Can we stop the server now?" "Can we run the script now?" "Can restart the servers now?"

I do get pissed that they asked for all this information in a range of excel spreadsheeets and then get lost...

feckit, who cares.