Going Live
Today, my company has begun the process of going live on its new ERP system. The old one is being disabled, the new one enabled; a process that begins in earnest overnight, and will proceed through Labor Day weekend.
I have been part of the year-long process that has directly involved dozens of people and indirectly many more, with millions of dollars spent on consultants and software, not to mention internal man-hours. On a personal level, I've sacrificed numerous nights, weekends, and even vacations to make this happen smoothly and within a reasonable timeframe; I've largely abandoned a career path I'd been following for seventeen years to embrace a new role and technology.
So, I guess it's no wonder that my stomach felt like a pit of butterflies when I read subject lines like "APPROVED - WE ARE GOING LIVE!!!" Or that my hands were literally shaking hard enough that I found it difficult to type up the request to our vendor to kickstart the process.
I know that a lot of people like to keep a strict work-life separation, and I respect that. But I haven't felt like this since being a kid on Christmas Eve, waiting for Santa to come. I knew my life would be changing, but it's all sinking in now... what I did for the past year and how my life is about to significantly change again as we settle in.
I have been part of the year-long process that has directly involved dozens of people and indirectly many more, with millions of dollars spent on consultants and software, not to mention internal man-hours. On a personal level, I've sacrificed numerous nights, weekends, and even vacations to make this happen smoothly and within a reasonable timeframe; I've largely abandoned a career path I'd been following for seventeen years to embrace a new role and technology.
So, I guess it's no wonder that my stomach felt like a pit of butterflies when I read subject lines like "APPROVED - WE ARE GOING LIVE!!!" Or that my hands were literally shaking hard enough that I found it difficult to type up the request to our vendor to kickstart the process.
I know that a lot of people like to keep a strict work-life separation, and I respect that. But I haven't felt like this since being a kid on Christmas Eve, waiting for Santa to come. I knew my life would be changing, but it's all sinking in now... what I did for the past year and how my life is about to significantly change again as we settle in.