The Story of My Project Go-Live

As most of you know, my big project was rolling out on 9/28. After a grueling night of work all seemed well by 5am when me, John and Jenny left the office. We deployed all of the designs and processes and restored databases to four regions around the world. It was now in the hands of the testers.

I came home to a "paralyzed" girlfriend lying in bed. The poor thing had major back spasms and could hardly move. It still amazes me how she made it home from the lower east side, on the subway. I took care of the her best I could and tried to rest my mind and body for the little time that I had to sleep. I needed to be on a status call at 10am. I woke up and checked my voicemail only to hear Jenny saying the testers reported Critical issues with the system and I needed to log in immediately.

I rushed to my computer and onto the conference call at 9:30am. The New York database was crawling and had severe errors, ones capable of invalidating all my work the night before.

I worked with Jenny and Eric to resolve the issues and after 4 hours we fixed them in time. The testers completed for all regions and gave official notice that this rollout was SUCCESSFUL! Oh man, I am so tired but so relieved that all my long nights and detailed plans paid off. WHEW!