On 2/4/2010 5:13 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 2/4/2010 3:30 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
A recent organizational change at my company has put someone in charge who is determined to make things perfect. We are a service provider,
isn't a common occurrence, and the engineer in question has a pristine track record.
This outage, of a high profile customer, triggered upper management to react by calling a meeting just days after. Put bluntly, we've been told "Human errors are unacceptable, and they will be completely eliminated. One is too many." ----------------------------------------------------------------
From experience...
At one point this will become overwhelming. You'll wake up every morning dreading going to work instead of looking forward to it. Chain shot will be put in the 'blame cannon' and blasted regularly and at everyone. Update your resume and get everything in place just in case it gets to the point you can't take it anymore sooner than you expect. ;-)
This is a golden opportunity.
Prepare a pLan for building the lab necessary to pre-test EVERYTHING.
Plan. Prepare a plan.
Cost it out.
Present the cost and the plan in a public forum or widely distributed memorandum (including as a minimum everybody that was at the meeting and everybody in the chain(s) of command between you and the edict giver.
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