Go-Live 2017 reminisces

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!”

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Hi

@Steve Fossey thanks for the memories, that was a cool Golive.

Hope to see you in a future.

Thanks for the Magic gnome

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@EDoe you have the magic touch… you should post on here more often!

nice one Steve!

Peut-être un changement de carrière dans un futur pas si lointain comme poète !

:wink:

Pierre

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