Everyday is a learning day.

All the grumbles of this new job initially. Ha, but i'm really happy that all of that are well paid off. Thanks little boy all the while for all the encouragement. Soon into my third month. I'm already learning more then my previous job. Really lucky i well say. I'm not too certain the things i'm learning is more worth while or continue doing coding will be more worth it. But at least i'm happy to be learning new things.

Someone wants mentioned this to me, "Business is the Key Drive to IT. Without business, there won't be IT." Though, i might not have understand this fully till now, but this sentence do make more sense to me after yesterday's IA (impact analysis) meeting. Yes, i am now the key holder of Biz As Usual change. I will be the only in here doing biz as usual as my part time job cos they "sold" me as a whole person dedicated to this task.

I went through the entire set of changes required. Basically all the change requried are biz driven. Biz in the form of income, revenue. So i was thinking. If there's isn't any biz drive from the marketing side, then there won't be the position created. If there wasn't the biz drive for systems to cut cost and improve revenue, there won't be positions for IT ppl. Then we are out of biz. Thus, i kind of believe that line once mentioned to me is very true. IT, the line of all evil deeds to the data entry clerks, to the customer service, cos they will be out of job as a result of the IT expertise.

I read in the papers sometime back that everyone should note down wat they have learned so as to not forget in time to come. Should be noted down to the extend of the steps taken. Yes, i'm considering setting up a log book to note down all the things which i've learnt. Esp the key points. So why not use a PC to note down? Cos i'm still a very paper person. I still love drawing in organisers with all the different coloured pens, to read from hard copies. =)

I was injected the devil potion during the IA meeting. They taught me on a smaller skill on how to analysis effort and to come out with the time line. They taught me the buffer and the push the job away. Though they buy me for a month, but my official time which i should be spending on this job should only be ard 9 days to the max. There is no room for negotiation. When going for a battle, we must win. Find the weakness in the documents and fight it out. Never accept more then what i can handle. Once all docs are signed, no more changes can be made. Basically there won't be any code change for those which i'm supposed to handle. They are just DB changes. But the fact is that there are tonnes of changes and updates to the DB in just a month cos of biz drive.

Visualise a little, i need roughly 2 days to understand the entire structure to this part of the DB. The doc is like 50 page long to learn how to manipulate the data in the tables etc etc. Goodness! no wonder every new person has to go through this state. I'm looking forward for the months to come to actually do a CR all the way down. CR scope are much much bigger. Time required is about 3 months in all before it drops into the SIT stage.

Well, happy happy, mood improved alot. =)