I was thinking about this when @josecgomez said he was going live recently, and I finally found it. The backstory of this was @EDoe was helping us go live and had such a miraculous touch my then boss named him “magic gnome”. We went live over the new year and I was pretty tired when I penned these touching lines…
‘Twas the week before go-live, and in the war room
The geekiest people were meeting (by Zoom)
The data upload was completed with care
In hopes that the old mistakes would not be there.
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The data team sunk themselves deep in their heads
And gave up on sleeping - at least in their beds
We all carried 'kerchiefs that could no longer fold
Our unhealthy habits gave us Epicolds
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When up in the server room came such a clatter
We all thought the “big one” had just thrown a platter
(Don’t let yourself worry about how I speak -
It’s even gets tough for your average geek)
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And just when we thought we’d give up and go home
We got a week - full time! - from our magic gnome
With a clatter of keys and the loan of his head
He soon let us know we had nothing to dread
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More rapid than eagles, departments aligned
We teamworked like crazy! Our core values shined!
And he whistled, and shouted, and called us himself:
“Engineering! Supply Chain! And Everyone Else!”
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He spoke not a word (though he tended to sing)
He faced all our thtuff and got on with his thing
The dragons of data that gave me a fright
He managed to slay with just eight gigabytes!
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We worked out a plan to test everything twice
And decided that some parts could get put on ice
And I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight
“Happy go-live to all! And to all a late night!”
