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*headdesk*
This weekend I will be deploying the first major phase of the largest project of my career. Yup, Project Doom (well, 75% of it anyway) goes live this weekend. Right now I've reached the stage where I'm vibrating from stress and caffeine and genuinely cannot cope with the concept of Making Plans After June 2nd.
I'm going to wake up on June 3rd with a vague sense of "WTF?", I can tell.
Anyway, massive stress and the timings for when I deploy and run things all depend on the team who are rebuilding the source application my data comes from and today we're still learning new things about their process and how it will cause issues for our deployment. Why yes, I feel so much more confident about this now that I'm rewriting my deployment plan for the fifth time in a week!
The remaining 25% (one more new reporting suite, one redesigned reporting suite, and the web interface for external clients) was supposed to go live on July 9th. That's a compromise date: originally the redesigned reporting suite was going live later in July with the external interface going live at the end of June, but we rejigged our plans slightly and made this compromise.
But now the business guys want the redesigned reporting suite ready earlier. Way earlier. So much earlier. As in, going live by the middle of June.
Which would be awesomesauce except they haven't got a layout for us and I'm going to struggle to go from nothing to a reporting suite that's been fully tested in two weeks while managing a massive deployment in the middle. And they still want the external interface for July 9th, BTW. Or...why not Canada Day weekend?
*headdesk*
I was kind of hoping my stress levels would go down in June. Nope! Looks like my stress levels will remain high through June.
And worst of all, right in the middle of June, my mother arrives. Traditionally my major source of stress and venting through the summer months. SHE'LL HELP SO MUCH. I'd been planning to take a day off the day before she arrived to do some final cleaning and enjoy my last day of being alone in the house, but due to the accelerated timelines I'm working to that looks unlikely.
Especially as the head boss just announced he's coming to my office for his big twice yearly update meeting on that day.
*headdesk*
And people wonder why I'm getting really bad migraines lately?
This week is also proving to be packed with other stuff happening after work and I've looked at my calendar and I'm stuggling to work out when I'm going to buy groceries. If my appointments on Thursday don't overrun and I'm still capable of driving, there might be time to make a really fast raid on the local store.
Maybe.
I hope that's something I can finagle. Food would be nice to have over the weekend. It's not that I don't want to order pizza (although I'm *so* over the local pizza place that's not very good and is the only place that delivers) but I'll also need things like milk and some source of nutrients, like vegetables. So groceries seem important to figure out. Right now, the fact that I haven't actually got any time to eat food on Thursday is the least of my problems. I'll sacrifice my possibility of eating food on one day for the much more pressing issue of buying food for for several days.
It would be nice to think that I'll start to feel marginally less over-booked and rushed after this weekend, at least. As I've been totally incapable of planning past June 2nd, I think next week looks like a calm week outside work at least.
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This weekend I will be deploying the first major phase of the largest project of my career. Yup, Project Doom (well, 75% of it anyway) goes live this weekend. Right now I've reached the stage where I'm vibrating from stress and caffeine and genuinely cannot cope with the concept of Making Plans After June 2nd.
I'm going to wake up on June 3rd with a vague sense of "WTF?", I can tell.
Anyway, massive stress and the timings for when I deploy and run things all depend on the team who are rebuilding the source application my data comes from and today we're still learning new things about their process and how it will cause issues for our deployment. Why yes, I feel so much more confident about this now that I'm rewriting my deployment plan for the fifth time in a week!
The remaining 25% (one more new reporting suite, one redesigned reporting suite, and the web interface for external clients) was supposed to go live on July 9th. That's a compromise date: originally the redesigned reporting suite was going live later in July with the external interface going live at the end of June, but we rejigged our plans slightly and made this compromise.
But now the business guys want the redesigned reporting suite ready earlier. Way earlier. So much earlier. As in, going live by the middle of June.
Which would be awesomesauce except they haven't got a layout for us and I'm going to struggle to go from nothing to a reporting suite that's been fully tested in two weeks while managing a massive deployment in the middle. And they still want the external interface for July 9th, BTW. Or...why not Canada Day weekend?
*headdesk*
I was kind of hoping my stress levels would go down in June. Nope! Looks like my stress levels will remain high through June.
And worst of all, right in the middle of June, my mother arrives. Traditionally my major source of stress and venting through the summer months. SHE'LL HELP SO MUCH. I'd been planning to take a day off the day before she arrived to do some final cleaning and enjoy my last day of being alone in the house, but due to the accelerated timelines I'm working to that looks unlikely.
Especially as the head boss just announced he's coming to my office for his big twice yearly update meeting on that day.
*headdesk*
And people wonder why I'm getting really bad migraines lately?
This week is also proving to be packed with other stuff happening after work and I've looked at my calendar and I'm stuggling to work out when I'm going to buy groceries. If my appointments on Thursday don't overrun and I'm still capable of driving, there might be time to make a really fast raid on the local store.
Maybe.
I hope that's something I can finagle. Food would be nice to have over the weekend. It's not that I don't want to order pizza (although I'm *so* over the local pizza place that's not very good and is the only place that delivers) but I'll also need things like milk and some source of nutrients, like vegetables. So groceries seem important to figure out. Right now, the fact that I haven't actually got any time to eat food on Thursday is the least of my problems. I'll sacrifice my possibility of eating food on one day for the much more pressing issue of buying food for for several days.
It would be nice to think that I'll start to feel marginally less over-booked and rushed after this weekend, at least. As I've been totally incapable of planning past June 2nd, I think next week looks like a calm week outside work at least.
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