Last week was surreal for me. I can honestly say its the highest pressure week i have had in my current job. It wasn’t that anyone else applied any pressure on me – i do that myself. I had a hard deadline to achieve of friday – the whole week was spent prepping documentation for that and speaking to teams around the world to make sure that those numbers i provided everyone else agreed with. For friday there were 4 deliverables to the particular customer and i was responsible for three of them. I managed to get my deliverables out on time, and I’m hoping the client will like them. The fact is i can justify not delivering anything at all given the fact that right until the last minute things were changing.
The 4th deliverable i was let down by – the person responsible for this i had spoken to on several occasions trying to get this dealt with, and it was left until the last minute – the last minute being the point they realized they didn’t have any information at all. I wanted to help, i wanted to get involved but i couldn’t – i just had too many of my own concerns to deal with on the other 3 deliverables.
I will see the customer at some point tomorrow – apparently they had anticipated that i deliver more information on a larger scope than what i did – i know for a fact i mentioned exactly what i would deliver on tuesday, but never mind. The customer is the customer and i will do what i can to make them happy. By the time last week was over i can honestly say i was at breaking point almost. it took me a day just to be able to breathe properly. I can’t let that kind of stress happen again, and I’m kind of angry that i let myself take it so seriously when clearly others did not.
The particular engagement i have been on has mixed blessings – its hard that the customer didn’t know what they wanted but i got to do some coding – i built a proof of concept environment for them. That kind of reminded me how much i actually like programming, and have missed it – it was hard for me to leave the environment alone.
Its even harder that i know i could code the solution of my customer very quickly and effectively – I’m tempted to put myself down as a development resource on that one. Last week wasn’t just one customer keeping me busy – there were lots of distractions. This next week is supposed to be easier – we will see how it goes.
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