Merry Projects

Given a choice, I would rather stay at home with Deli and the kids.

Sadly, I couldn't.

Simply because I didn't have the pleasure of making such decision.

Today's an important day not only to the project team but to the bosses as well - though more than half of them were on their jolly holidays. Bladihel.

Anxiety literaly drove me to work today. I just had to start the day with the much needed energy booster. Or nerve-calming draught. Whichever.

A venti latte with yummylicious biscotti

The office was awfully quiet when I got in. Fine by me. It probably worked to my advantage. Had to sort a couple of documents for Collection project sign-off. We're deploying on Saturday and the papers are mighty important for the exercise. No sign-off, no deployment. Period.

Workflow project on the other hand, was deployed to production on Christmas day and I need to make sure everything is a-okay before reporting a bunch of stuff to the bosses.

To add to the known butterflies-flying-haphazardly-in-the-stomach, both projects' fate were scheduled to be decided upon, before noon, by the compliance officers. Their decision will pretty much determine the success of both projects or if the CEO gets to keep her glittery points. Every audit project carries a certain amount of points on the CEO's dashboard. Points will be deducted for every failed/unclosed audit item. So yeah - no pressure there. Really. I'm gonna sit by the corner for a while.

I was on the last page of the important papers when Pea (Collection's PM) slammed the receiver and half-screamed my name - which rarely happen because she is such a doll and would never scream at anyone. Plus she's new - she has to earn the screaming rights. Heheh.

So. Pea was screaming because:

1. The manager who was supposed to sign the paper was on half day leave and was already home when she called.

2. One of the testers was on mc and the other was on long leave. Their sign-offs were crucial.

3. We were not invited to the evaluation session with the compliance officer

Well, not so much of the last item but the first 2 were pretty shocking. It could jeopardize the deployment for Collection project and we couldn't afford another slip-up. Bad enough that the timeline was dragged because of some major issue.

Pea couldn't get a hold of the users who were in the evaluation session, so i tried calling the compliance officer personally.

Lo and behold - all audit issues were closed!! For both projects!! Yeaheyy!!!!!!!

I felt like jumping with joy but decided not to, for the fear of causing tremors.

Texted the bosses of the outcome. That's gonna cost me - some of them are on vacation overseas.

Eh, would it cost more to text? Ah, what the heck. Who cares. I'm just happy. Ecstatic. Thrilled.

Rewarded myself with these babies

So dear readers, these 2 projects were the reason why I was so caught-up with work. I will write more frequently from now on. Provided that my boss won't assign more audit projects to me anytime soon! I have loads of picts and stories to tell and will do it soon.

Do allow me to take some time to breathe. I'd probably take some time off in Jan. My boss offered me a vacation in the Lion City. I might just take him up on that.

The best reward - the smiles of these people, knowing that there won't be late nights for me (and sometimes them) and lesser dinner at Boston or Subway.. heheh