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28 marzo

Coming to an end (Hopefully) - Part 2

Finally, after many struggles, our product finally being deployed into the prodcution server today. However, the "journey" to complete the migration was not that smooth but the migration did completed before 6pm today. Due to the delay, the real live test can only be done on next Monday.
 
This is the longest waiting that I ever had for a project to go live. I was once desperately eagerly wish for smooth roll out since long long time ago. But, today, the roll out does not create any sense of emotional moment to me. Feeling good? Not really.  Feeling bad? Not true.
 
There is still the live test to be conducted next week. Challenges are anticipate.
 
But why I do not have any exicted at all, afterall, I had been waiting for today since one and half year ago? I should have feel very happy but I am not.
 
Furthermore, today I had attended the biggest farewell party in my life. People come and go, project on time and delay.........etc, all are parts and puzzle of life? A norm of life which does not really need to be emotional about?
26 marzo

Coming to the end? (Hopefully)

Much has been said and much had been heard.......it is time to calm down and start a new journey.
 
Finally, UAT had been signed off since last Friday and everyone is now in the progress for migration to production roll out this coming Friday. 2 years of waiting will soon end by this Friday(hopefully). I should have feel very happy but I am not. There is no emotion description for me on UAT singoff this round. Too many of disappointment for the past 2 years make me timid to put any hope and any joy with the UAT signoff. 
 
For the past 1 month, I had acted a bit "harsh" and "tough" on every matters regarding UAT processes by client.  No more Shakesphere English but straight to the point comments and replies to show my dissatisfication on the messy UAT processes.
 
When I first joined this project, there were 5 of us(the Star Wars members) steering the "ship". 1 of them left after 1st UAT, 2 of them left after the 2nd UAT, another 1 left after the 3rd UAT, since then, I am alone to finish the journey. Guys, this is really a hard and 'evil' journey, you guys are smart enough to abandon the "wreckED ship" earlier. 
 
The project had dragged too long and never come to an end with repeating UAT on the same modules, the only reason for me to continue the 'evil' journey is all because of my pride and sense of achievement. If I am not greedy with "pride", I too will abandon the "wreckED ship" much earlier.  I do not know how much my pride and sense of achievement worth from what I gained in this project. I don't even know if it is worth to continue the battle alone for so long. I really don't know. Many time, I questioned myself:- what is pride? what is sense of achievement? what is sense of responsibility? how much all these "invisible" items worth? What can I do with all these "invisible" items? I have been thinking very hard on all the questions but I cannot find a answer that can convince myself.
 
Star Wars members, it is really my wish to inform you all first hand from Data Center on this coming Friday itself that, we finally make it to the end when the final product really put into production server. 
 
Do pray for me and I too will pray hard so that I can fulfill my wish to deliver the good news to you all.
 
Praying........&..........waiting.............praying.......praying......praying..........IMAGE_00096
16 marzo

UAT

Have anyone heard of this?
 
  1. UAT is perform by people who do not know the flow of system and not even the project managers who handle the project. Problem logs are raised because everyone "thought" our system is at fault because they never study anything of the project before UAT starts.
  2. Project managers do not know anything of his/her own project and insrtucted the vendor to be fully on top of everything because vendor is the inventor of the system.  (I am confuse who is my boss now and who is the users of the system in the future)
  3. Testers who perform the UAT does not have any single common sense of any common sense, same goes with the project managers. Such common sense does not require any IT knowledge and yet the whole team at the client side including supervisor and project managers do not even aware of their own mistakes. (I am confuse and not sure is my IQ is too low or their have super IQ level which I failed to understand)
  4. Tester is asking vendor what is this and that, while everything about this and that were the result of their own business team functional requirements.
  5. A bunch of documents need to be re-write in plain English because no one understand technical terms and suprisingly not even their IT team members can understand the technical terms as well.
  6. Everyone in the bank requesting "Vendor to provide 101% support to us". At the end, vendor need to provide 1001% support because their lame excuse "no proper handover", we are now doing their IT team members work as well.  (Thanks to "no proper handover")
  7. Signed off items from previous round of UAT are claimed not working so well because now different testers are doing the test, reason being: different testers has different perception. So vendor needs to change it accordingly.  (My take is no changes to be made because of "perception" difference)
  8. A bunch of documents which are dated 2 years back need to be re-sent to the project managers because the documents are now no where to be found.

Everyday I pray to myself to have healthy stamina and brain with good memory to continue the battle with all the above items.

Everyday, I digged my memory and emails to look for evidence of what had transpired since the last 2 years to guard the "fortress" of our system.  I cannot afford the client to simply blame on the system when they themselves are actually do not know anything because of "no proper handover" by their ex-colleagues. "No proper handover" is the lame-st excuse given to us, which I don't even bother to believe it 0.001% at all.

High endurance to temperature and blood pressure fluctuation is needed for this battle.                      May the Force be with Me!!