Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Go Live - What a show!!

Go live events can be magnum opus!! My previous post about Go live gives a glimpse of what is to come. In its silent way, it paints some bright colors on a grand canvas which can turn into a visual delight. It promises of thrilling roadblocks and the adventure of overcoming them all. Stories of countless sleepless nights. Visions of bleary eyed geeks continuously churning out code at the speed of characters dropping in rain making hot fixes and patches. Noises of people talking over phone sounding alerts, dissipating anxiety and clamouring to make the delivery on time. Possibility of overshooting deadline and last minute chances of a rollback. It's not for no reason that people have a plan B ready for an exigency. One never knows what might go wrong!

Alas, nothing of that sort happened!!!

Sorry readers, but my first Go live event as an onsite co-ordinator is hardly an interesting story. We have always been conservative in our estimates - sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly (are we fortunate??). Not quite surprising given that we are working with a French client.

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