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To borrow from Conan the Barbarian, I have taken to contemplating some things upon my own “Tree of Woe.” Specifically, I have been considering some items around a project that I am working on at work. My contemplations, though, are probably much more along the lines of rants.

A rather large project is underway, and one of the components of this project is a conversion from one tool to another.  Unfortunately, the timing of this conversion is unfortunate, as it has to be done by January 1.  Needless to say, lots of different threads are occurring around the same effort, all working on different parts.

One of the problems I have rapidly grown to discover about this project is our lack of communication to groups outside of our area–IT.  It has been non-existent.  This is problematic, as evidenced by the electronic exchange I engaged in with someone well above my pay-grade.  Unfortunately, like most email exchanges, this devolved when someone decided to include someone else further up in the organization in an email thread, who then decided to include someone else further up in the organization in the email thread.  Naturally, that last “someone else” decided to throw their weight around.

Thus, a mad scramble ensued today to make sure that a sufficiently important person in the organization is communicating this change to the business to ensure they are aware of this change coming up incredibly soon and are aligning to support this change.

Admittedly, I should have identified this a long time ago, but I had falsely presumed that with all the effort required on the IT side of things that someone else was engaged on the side of the business.  Clearly, that is not the case.

With this and other ongoing efforts in a holiday-shortened week, the mountain I need to climb just became much steeper.