The Final Push for a Big Pilot – Crazy Plans
Today was a stressful day - very. I'm trying to get the CouchDB and Salesforce endpoints to scale, having essentially no luck, and then going into a meeting this afternoon about how we can't hold back anything for the new Pilot Launch on Monday.
Like the Orange Juice commercial, the fun just kept coming as we were in a weekly planning meeting and I found out that we need to have even more features in the code before tomorrow evening.
13 hours.
We have 13 hours to stabilize this code, get some sense of scalability, fix a few outstanding features, and then del with these few more, and all in 13 hours.
I think it's a mistake, and it's driven by nothing more than the desire by the project manager to look good to his boss(es). It's all about face. His. He isn't asking us for dates, he's telling us dates, and then when things come up - as they often do, it's "impossible" to move the dates. All for face.
So I'm getting a little tired of this today. I need to just go home.
Thankfully, it's Angelina's Birthday, so I have that to look forward to tonight. Good.