Friday, November 19, 2010

Day 575 - Sample Loading

After overcoming the DB2 problems, the sample has been loaded into the quality system.
We had some errors, some we were already expecting, and overall management were satisfied with it because the integration tests can be performed.

Day 573 - DB2 Crash

This weekend we are going to load a specific sample in the quality system for integration tests.
Unfortunately this task were almost compromised because our DB2 staging area database crashed real hard.
It took me around 4 hours to put everything working again, and I had to reconstruct the entire staging area responsible for holding the transformed data.

Day 563 - Tests and Validations

The 13.5% of automatic validation are half-way developed. We've met in order to check if everyone was checking the same things the same way in all the systems.
As expected, there were some differences which will easily be corrected.

Meanwhile, the tests performed by the test team are still half-speed, things are not as stable as they should be, which means the team does not have much work.

Day 558 - Mapping Review

Since there is a mismatch between what target system has now implemented and current mappings, the mappings have been fully reviewed.
This consolidation action will result in a much desired stability.
Insurance policies are still not as stable as they were before the vacations, and management is starting to get nervous about it.

Day 549 - GIS Frozen

It seems that GIS has now frozen its development.
I hope this will bring some stability to the mappings is particular and to all the data migration project in general.

Day 534 - New Team Reshape

The team will suffer a new reshape.
Professionally I had planed to start a new project with a new client when this data migration ended next month.
But since the dead line has been pushed to April next year, that will not be possible.
Currently I'm the technical leader of this data migration and there is no one else in the team, or among any other team involved, that can replace me with a low cost and zero impact in the project.

Since I cannot leave and had agreed a new start date for another client, I had to negotiate my involvement in both projects. This was actually easy to do and the result is a balance between my involvement in both projects.
I already had requested one more person to our team, and this situation has just speed up that process. The team will actually be reinforced with two people, half-time.
They are both knowledge about Data Fusion and data migrations, so their integration will be easy and fast.

Day 528 - The Start of a New Era

The new plan is now in action but things are about the same.
Insurance policy had a backset. Thins that were stable, are now being rejected and mappings are now suffering many changes.
Stability has still not been achieved and GIS is still a moving target, and the migration team is struggling to keep up with the new plan in order to comply with it.
Tests still have not full started because it's still not possible to load data into GIS.

The start of this new era is fictional because everything is about the same as before.