tyler

Hell Week

Fri Feb 29th 15:55:53 2008

It's been quite a while since I've posted about a Hell Week. While this was definitely one of them, I'm feeling like I've accomplished a lot of things this week and that's always a good feeling. Especially after a week that included 2 "until 3am" sessions. Those take a greater toll on me than they used to. Especially when I try and get started the next day at the same time.

This week in general has been a big week for us. We're getting ready to stream Oprah's book club web events starting Monday. A lot of hard work has gone into this event. I hope it doesn't bring the entire net to its knees. We estimate a lot of traffic. More on that next week after the first event happens.

While I've still got a handful of loose ends to clean up, I found out that I've gained a little extra time on my estimates. That's usually a good feeling going into a weekend. I'm going to try and continue to increase that lead so I can call my portion code complete as soon as possible.

Another project I work on has been awaiting QA resources to give it some attention. Well those resources have been hired, so I'm going to have the typical installation support issues to deal with there. It should be pretty straight forward stuff. I'm really excited about getting this deployed because if it does well I'm guessing it will define my job at Move for the rest of the year. I can't even imagine coming in week to week and knowing exactly what I'll be working on. It would be a nice change.

Move is growing by leaps and bounds. It's starting to feel like a bigger company. I know less than 5000 folks isn't big at all, but we are feeling a fair amount of chaotic growing pains. More process is thrown into the works, which makes my day to day job slightly more monotonous. For example, there are more developers that I don't interact with frequently, so I'm creating more and more verbose documentation to avoid steady flows of email and other interruptions.

I'm keeping my head down. I've been here for a long time now... relatively speaking, and I hope to be around for some time to come. I take responsibility for my tasks and execute them to the best of my ability. Strong opinions don't get you very far when you're in the trenches like I am. Production does... so off to produce I return.