2007年12月19日星期三

From heaven to hell

Our HR manager just announced holiday arrangement some days ago, which we will have a 4 days Christmas holiday and a 4 days New Year holiday. Many people in our project were quite excited about it and started to plan how to enjoy our holidays include me. Some even intended to ask for 3 days annual leave to bridge the two 4 days holiday so that it becomes 11 days. And we really want relax, even stay at home instead of going outside because we've been working hard for several months. Last month, I worked 13 hours every day averagely.

But we dropped from heaven down to hell after yesterday's meeting hold by out PM. She annouced overwork day arrangment for us.

"From today to 17th Jan, no holidays, 6 days a week". Said our PM.

At that time, I felt extremely quiet in the meetingroom. But a few minutes later, the air is less stressed; people accepted this decision.

I am not mad at this decision. If I was in her shoes, I probably did the same thing. The cause is we have to pass the integration test in Beijing before 17th Jan. But the problem is we don't have enough time,enough resource to do test here as they did in Beijing. We have 8 devs but only 4 tests. We are supposed to finish all the integration test before we ship the software to site. As a matter of fact, four integrators working for Beijing subway system can finish their integration test in Beijing before 17th Jan or even early except us.

It's shamed. One that always claims to be the No.1 in this field gets the last score.

So what is wrong? Why we can't catch the schedule? Why don't so many know what customers want yet?

Summing up my theoretical musings about the whole of Beijing project, I conclude that it is due to management of this project.

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