Working on the weekend

The boss asked me to assist N this last weekend with the implementation of his project. This was the one that I was 'babysitting' a while ago. After all the problems we had building it and integrating the new applications with the new hardware, approval to implement it was received at 11:30 a.m. on Friday.

With the boss away on his holiday, I was asked to help with the communications and 'PR' and perhaps with incident management if necessary. In the end I spent four hours drinking tea and watching the guys run test after test against the live systems with almost no problems at all.

There was the odd minor hiccup during 'production proving', but it was all signed off before 10:00 and we were out of there by 11:00 - home to bed after, for some, 10 hours on the job. N and his team have pulled off a minor miracle in pulling a project with one foot in the grave and implementing it on schedule with very few problems. Even the ones we have found are either intermittent and affect very few customers, or no-one will notice anyway. I have never felt so good about doing nothing.

An inspirational quote from Tom Peter's Blog :
"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and surpassing itself. If all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying".

Here's to surpassing oneself!!