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[cryowizard]

Тридцатичасовый рабочий день. Зато всё получилось на удивление хорошо, несмотря на неизбежные глюки (QA все-таки). Начальство писало кипятком и ело у нас с рук.

Наш шеф с обидой в голосе сказал -- после того, как мы сделали демо на trading floor -- что он не видел последнее демо. А нам ему пришлось отказать, ибо сил не было никаких (напрашивается параллель с "голова болит").

Ушёл спать, ёпть.

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[cryowizard.livejournal.com]

Well, it was a necessity at this particular point. The reason was simple -- we were late with our deliverables for the last few months, and things came to a point when a certain deadline had to be made, at any cost -- we have exhausted our patience credit with the business.

Dont get me wrong -- nobody made us stay. We stayed because the situation required it -- all 6 of us. A few reasons inside that one too -- we've put in too much work over last year to let something small fuck up the impression we're making on the business folks, and well -- we're a bunch of dedicated folks. Damn, I love my crew!!

You have to realize that besides a technical aspect of the project there's a big PR angle to a success of a huge undertaking we're trying to accomplish. Timing is everything -- we had a good Russell day, and an excellent S&P Freefloat. If we show proper progress right now, we ride a good wave to the bonus time (Sep-Nov is that bracket!). And it doesn't have to be perfect, which is the best part. It wasn't a production release, but a QA one -- we had to show that certain things are moving along, with glitches and errors, but moving along.

It really sounds worse than it is -- as long as it doesn't happen on a regular basis. Then you know the project is being mismanaged. I'm sure we'll have to review our scheduling and milestoning so that we are no longer that late. However, working with live production systems we constantly get distracted with small requests from the side, and emergency support. Both delay the development effort. Well, such is life on Wall Street. As long as I get compensated for the effort, I dont mind pushing the envelope.

Not too often, of course :)