All today I’m working together and for a company running a real big application move from remote. When ask about in front they said that they will do all the planning their selves. Great I thought, but stayed dumb not going the risk making them grumpy.

At the end I really got some planning two days ago and after a few iteration of asking and answering even I thought we could work with it.

Today now work started rough as for a few preconditions weren’t ready and done, but after half an hour we were back in plan and everything looked fine. Just "looking" and "being" are two different things ….

The few minor hurdles came up for sure during the morning, but this is normal and nothing to mind and worry about in such a project. Even with the best planning in advance you can’t think about all and it depends on the coordinator and/or players to cruise and steer around.

But finally the best of all happend around lunchtime. Right around noon we had planned to stop some application and export/re-import a real big database. So I dialed in into a phone conference as scheduled and found myself alone there.

Right 15 minutes later the accountant of the customer dialed in and asked " What are we doing right now?" and I answered "Waiting?!" Perplexed He asked why and I said "Personally I guess your guys are at lunch … hopefully food is good there …."

Then there was silence!!        roflmao

This morning I got up rather early as for I had an agreement to take over a productive database from the United States. All planned in advance and agreed for their late night to minimize the downtime for them.

As for all has to be done within 2 hours as the maximum maintenance time frame and considering about a total size of 8.5 GB you might be able to understand that I did not want to waste time starting late.

So I was sitting there already at 7am our time on a sunday morning … and waited and waited for the Americans to turn up telling me they place the data on their staging server for me being able to pick them up!

Around 8am I finally called those guys and guess!!! … They told me that they had a late agreement about  to delay that move  until their morning to ensuring all of them would be around!

Unfortunately they forgot to tell me about this decission :-((     DID I SAY THAT I NEED THEM?!

Now not even my sunday morning was wasted! No, now hat means that I later have to work again finally accomplishing that move for them. Can you imagine how grumpy I am?!