What the…

by Sajin on May 16, 2010

What the freak was I thinking on April 02!!!

First time in 11 years am finding myself working 100+ hours a week. Not a moment to sit back and think what went wrong. A client who escalates even QA build breaks to their CIO is not helping either.

No new lessons on a quick reflection…

  • The 9-lady one month myth is really a myth. Don’t try
  • Integrating with 5 systems and 53 services in god-knows-how-many technologies need at least couple of weeks of integration time
  • A team who hasn’t worked together before needs at least a month to gel. Don’t attempt a 12-week dev cycle with such a team

Well, there is one new lesson… every time you refuse to learn, it gets harder the next time.

And a principle that need to be reinforced – you’ve every right to put yourself through this shit, but not 40 other people who were not part of that decision.

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

Sini May 18, 2010 at 10:42 pm

Are you sure it wasn’t the 1st? :)

Sajin May 20, 2010 at 12:45 am

it’s like a couple of firsts together ;)

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